Committee hears request to name Groton trail for Marion Stoddard

Mar 4, 2026

Supporters asked the committee to report favorably on H 5113 to officially name an accessible trail in J. Harry Rich State Forest the Marion Stoddard Riverwalk in recognition of a local conservation leader’s role in restoring the Nashua River.

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Representative Scarsdale told the committee the Nashua River was once ecologically dead because of industrial pollution and described Marion Stoddard’s decades of work to restore it.

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