Reno v. Town of Hopkinton

This is an appeal under RSA ch. 541 from a decision of the board of taxation upholding the refusal of the town of Hopkinton to classify one hundred twenty-seven acres of appellant taxpayers’ land as “wild land” in accordance with the provisions of RSA 79-A:2 XIII (Supp. 1975). See N.H. Const. pt. II, art. 5-B.

RSA 79-A:2 XIII (Supp. 1975) defines “wild land” as follows: “ ‘Wild land’ means any unimproved land upon which there are no detrimental structures and on which the owner is not substantially interfering with the natural ecological processes as determined and classified by criteria…