The Conservancy is honored to have accepted the donation of a conservation easement covering 46.5 acres of forests, fields, streams, and wetlands in West Swanzey, New Hampshire. These acres boast many important water resources for the Town of Swanzey, including a stratified drift aquifer, three separate wellhead protections areas (an area surrounding a water well or wellfield that supplies a public water system) which serve roughly 850 members of the Swanzey community, and Bailey Brook and its associated flood plain and wetlands. The land also sits near other conserved land, including 216 acres owned by the Humane Society and two other properties under easement with the Monadnock Conservancy. The property is also within the California Brook watershed, and downstream from the California Brook Natural Area, an important area for local conservation efforts. The conservation easement covering these 46.5 acres was donated to the Conservancy in memory of George and Arline Goodnow Sr. and George and Sophie Goodnow Jr., who owned this land for many years.