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August 25th, 5-7pm

Enjoy a delicious free meal and meet old and new friends

Gilsum Congregational Church

USDA Wildlife Services is working closely with the NH Fish and Game Department to mitigate human-bear conflicts throughout the state. Read more to learn about this issue.

Prime black bear habitat includes deciduous forests (oaks, maple, beech etc.), wetlands, and riparian (along rivers) zones. The natural areas surrounding your town provide very good habitat for black bears.  Many human-bear conflicts arise when bears frequent properties to access food attractants that are found around homes.  The most common attractants are birdfeeders, unsecured garbage, and compost piles which include food scraps.  Livestock, such as chickens and pigs, can also attract bears when not properly protected. Electric fencing is the most effective way to protect livestock.  In most cases removing the attractant the bear(s) are utilizing eliminates the bear problem.  It is also helpful to harass bears with noise, such as banging pots and pans, or using compressed air horns to scare them away.

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/bears/index.html

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/bears/faqs.html

http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/profiles/black-bear.html

http://wildlifehelp.org/animals/new-hampshire

Bears & Chickens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tVkq0R-wQ

  Bears & Birdfeeders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3SFCRFKR8w

Dumpsters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JXbDPQ0d-U

Dumpsters 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKjpaoHqwZA

A Family Event-Sunday July 29th 10-3, Gilsum Steam Academy, 640 Rte 10 Gilsum

Come enjoy a hands on experience with some cool cars and trucks and oth fun family Activities

$5 a person or $20 for a family

American Legion Cook Out

Treats from Sweet Confections and Kona Ice

Sponsored by Monadnock Ford to Benefit Gilsum Rec’s Before and Afterschool Program

for more info email gilsumrecbasp@gmail.com

See details on Rock Swap page

Toveco (www.toveco.com) will be displaying native natural New Hampshire gold / gemstone jewelry during the Gilsum Rock Swap & Mineral Show on June 23-24. Owner James Tovey says he’ll be showing  raw gold from the Moosilauke watershed in the Warren and Benton area, and gemstone material is from the Tripp Mine in Alstead.

“All the gold was collected by my prospecting friends, Peter Cram and Dale Carlson, and myself.” Tovey cut the gemstones and cast the jewelry findings himself, and did all of the stone setting and finish work. The pendant and aquamarine ring are completely New Hampshire-native jewelry pieces. The photos here represent about 35 years of design work, and 1 1/2 years of learning the casting process and mastering a 3d printer, Tovey says.

“I started by carving wax models by hand for the first castings. But that was just not sensible with the modern tools that are out there. The problem was there was no-one I could find to teach me how to use a 3-D printer to produce good casting models. The casting models have to handle the investment burn-out cycle and leave a good casted detail and finish. So it took a lot of self learning and checking out U-tube for bit of information.”

Casting silver is straightforward because Tovey uses standard casting grains. “But casting NH gold is different because I use it as found,” he says.

The purity of New Hampshire gold ranges from 20 to 93 percent. The secondary material in the gold is silver, so alloying the gold has been a challenge, Tovey says. As for an example the pendant is 15K, the Aqua ring is 16K and the tourmaline ring is 17K. To determine the carat weight he has them tested with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, an x-ray instrument used for the chemical analyses of rocks and minerals. “I’m making progress on a process for alloying New Hampshire gold.

 “Gold prospecting pushed me to start casting jewelry findings. This has become a very enjoyable endeavor,” Tovey says. To find out more, visit him in space #33 at the Gilsum Rock Swap & Mineral Show.