naturesource communications
Michele L. Tremblay, principal, naturesource (pronounced nature-resource) communications, has a strong business background including management, marketing, and communication with twenty years of natural resource experience.
       As principal of naturesource communications, Michele serves as a consultant to nonprofit organizations, governments, and businesses from her office in Boscawen. She helps her clients with the organization management, capacity building, communication, and natural resource planning needs. Michele's clients include local, state, federal, and transboundary governments; nonprofits, and grassroots groups including watershed associations. Michele has helped her clients with community organizing and self-governance. She has facilitated processes to draft articles of incorporation, bylaws, and organizational structures as well as helping groups to define and implement decision making processes including consensus building. She has also provided capacity building services including training in volunteer recruitment and management and fund development. naturesource communications provides a full suite of organizational support including event planning and facilitation.

Volunteer and civic service
With a strong dedication to community service, Michele has served on a variety of local, state, and regional boards, commissions, and committees. She has been an officer of the Boscawen Conservation Commission since 1991 (that manages the Boscawen Town Forest and Tree Farm) and has served as its chair since 1995. She has served as a representative to the Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee since its inception in 1990. For nearly fifteen years, she has served as its chair and Program Director for the committee's Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program. Active in water issues, Ms. Tremblay also serves on a many boards and advisory groups including as a member of the Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Network Steering Committee, NH Statewide Volunteer Monitoring Committee, University of Massachusetts Watershed Web Project Committee, and the Project WET Advisory Council. Michele was appointed by the Governor to represent conservation interests on the State Rivers Management Advisory Committee (vice-chair) and the State Conservation Committee on the State Lakes Advisory Committee, Historic Agricultural Structures Advisory Committee, and Conservation License Plate Advisory Committee. Michele served as a member of the board of directors of the NH Association of Conservation Commissions and is a charter representative to the Central NH Regional Planning Commission's Regional Resource Conservation Committee. She is president of the New Hampshire Rivers Council. Michele also served as chair of the Watershed Advisory Group for the Executive Committee of the Merrimack River Initiative. She is active in legislative issues and in 1998, coordinated river conservation groups for the initiation and successful passage of a bill that granted shoreland protection to previously excluded rivers in New Hampshire. She served on the Penacook-Boscawen Water Precinct Board of Commissioners for several years.
         A New Hampshire native, she has served the region and state in a variety of land, planning, river, and lake conservation groups and received a 2003 National River Hero award, “Catch of the Year” volunteer award, and named the first NH River Conservationist of the Year in 1998 by the NH Department of Environmental Services, and Environmental Hero by Proctor Academy in 2002. She and Steve Landry accepted the US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Merit Award in 2001 for their work on the Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program. In 2006, she was honored to receive the Helen Award given annually to a person who illustrates in living the kind of selfless devotion to others that Helen Kimball Houston (1904-2004) personified through her long and busy life. Michele received a President's Volunteer Service Award from the Bush administration in 2008. Michele is a Justice of the Peace in the State of New Hampshire. 

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