**FILE**A common loon swims across the waters of Peacham Pond in Peacham, Vt., Monday, May 7, 2001. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, reports the summer of 2006 had its ups and downs for Vermonts common loons. On the upside, there were a record 58 nesting attempts statewide, and volunteers counted 200 adult loons during the annual Loonwatch survey of 132 lakes and ponds in mid-July. This was a new record and considerably higher than the 29 adults counted during the first Loonwatch survey in 1983. On the downside, 14 loon pairs had failed nests, including five that were flooded during the wet spring. In 2005 there were only six failed nests.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
**FILE**A common loon swims across the waters of Peacham Pond in Peacham, Vt., Monday, May 7, 2001. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, reports the summer of 2006 had its ups and downs for Vermonts common loons. On the upside, there were a record 58 nesting attempts statewide, and volunteers counted 200 adult loons during the annual Loonwatch survey of 132 lakes and ponds in mid-July. This was a new record and considerably higher than the 29 adults counted during the first Loonwatch survey in 1983. On the downside, 14 loon pairs had failed nests, including five that were flooded during the wet spring. In 2005 there were only six failed nests.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Nearly $1 million in funding is going toward the protection and restoration of fish and wildlife habitat in New Hampshire.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with Eversource, the University of New Hampshire and the Connecticut River Watershed is announcing the funds today at UNH.

The projects are expected to restore eroded stream bank; provide fish access to miles of streams; improve young forest habitat; protect diverse habitat for fish and wildlife; and engage in hundreds of volunteers in conservation.

Projects are expected to help native brook trout; woodcock; cottontail; and warblers.

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