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Committee advances draft co-occurrence scoring framework for conservation prioritization
Summary
Members reviewed a consolidated '2026 CLRC Categories Master' and David Little’s comparison spreadsheet, agreed to focus on roughly five top-level categories for co-occurrence mapping, and assigned Dwight Emery to integrate meeting annotations into a next draft for circulation.
The Conservation Land Review Committee spent the bulk of its April 21 meeting reviewing a consolidated categories document and a color-coded spreadsheet David Little prepared that compares candidate categories from multiple sources, including prior CLRC materials and regional planning documents.
David Little urged caution to 'be careful to avoid double-counting' attributes when building a co-occurrence scoring system. Members discussed treating the NH Wildlife Action Plan (WAP) mapping as an additional factor rather than folding WAP scores directly into the new scoring table to avoid redundancy, though Anne Glavin noted the group could deliberately add weight to some attributes if desired.
Committee members identified missing items in the spreadsheet and added several entries (marked in yellow in the working document). Ned Beecher proposed someone draft a nested list of co-occurrence categories for further refinement; the group agreed on about five top-level categories (for example, 'water resources' as a top-level label that would include groundwater, surface water and wetlands). Dwight Emery offered to integrate the annotations and provide the next draft spreadsheet for the CLRC ahead of the next meeting.
