Herbert Welsh for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests to purchase 656 acres on the north slopes. Welsh led the Sunapee Chapter of SPNHF for more than 20 years, eventually expanding the land holding to 1185acres, which became the bulk of Mt. Sunapee State Park, For his health, beginning in 1915, Welsh began to walk from his home in Philadelphia to Sunapee, NH in June, a trek of roughly 400 miles, taking about 1 month and continued until 1929 at age 78. Welsh died on June 28, 1941 in Montpelier, Vermont. Herbert Welsh Herbert Welsh (1851 - 1941) was a United States
Welsh Ornithological Society Welsh Ornithological Society The Welsh Ornithological Society () is an organisation which promotes the study and conservation of birds in Wales. Each year it organises a conference and publishes two issues of the journal "Welsh Birds", one of which contains the "Welsh Bird Report". It was founded on 26 March 1988 at a conference in Aberystwyth. It now has about 250 members. The television presenter and author Iolo Williams has been the society's president since November 2009. The society runs the Welsh Records Panel which decides on the authenticity of records of rare birds in Wales. It considers records of