Moose Plates raise over $20 million

This month New Hampshire’s Conservation and Heritage License Plate – nicknamed the “Moose Plate” – passed $20 million in lifetime sales.

The license plates, which feature the illustration of a moose, are available to the public for an annual $30 fee.  That fee goes to historical, cultural, and environmental preservation in the Granite State.

The Moose Plate has funded everything from no-till farming equipment rentals, to restoring the 1905 Chickering & Sons Concert Grand Piano in Chester, to planting wildflowers along state highways.

An advisory committee of legislators and state officials determines how to spend the funds each year.

Click here to learn more about the Moose Plate. 

In recent years legislators have proposed other specialty plate programs:

• Donate Life plates to raise funds to educate about organ donation 
• University plates to raise funds for college scholarships 
• Breast Cancer and Pediatric Cancer plates for nonprofits that apply for at least 1,000 plates, which would show either a pink or yellow ribbon 
• Agricultural plates to fund agricultural education 
• Friends of Animals plates to support spay and neuter programs and the state veterinary diagnostic laboratory 

The Legislature rejected each of those proposals because of the cost of establishing a new specialty license plate, estimated around $300,000.

Would you support other special license plates to fund programs in New Hampshire?  Let us know your ideas in the comments below.