Dec 17, 2013
The Hooper Pond area was identified by the Department of Conservation’s Maine Natural Areas Program as being of statewide ecological importance due to its exemplary pond and streamshore vegetation and high quality wildlife habitat, including high-value breeding...
Jan 14, 2014
Androscoggin Land Trust conserves almost 90 acres within the Huston Farm Conservation Area, a significant area of farmland protection and open space within urban New Auburn. ALT owns 27 acres here while holding a conservation easement on an additional 62 acres of...
Jan 14, 2014
Collectively, Androscoggin Land Trust currently conserves approximately 600 acres in the Jersey Bog area of Buckfield and Turner. Jersey Bog is a large wetland complex that drains into the Nezinscot River and then into the Androscoggin River. In 2003, due to Beginning...
Jan 14, 2014
The Bonney family generously donated approximately five acres of land along Route 4 and the Nezinscot River, an Androscoggin tributary, to Androscoggin Land Trust in 2007 for the development of a village park. In 2009, Maine’s Department of Transportation...
Jan 14, 2014
In 2007 Katherine “Katie” Breton generously donated approximately 100-acres of her land in Lisbon, including her home, to the Androscoggin Land Trust through her estate. The 102 acre Katherine M. Breton Memorial Preserve conserves almost one mile of...
Jan 14, 2014
ALT’s first conservation easement! Donated by George G. Martin in 1996 to the New England Forestry Foundation, this 120-acre parcel was protected in 1998 by a conservation easement that is co-held by the Androscoggin Land Trust and the Lake Auburn Watershed...
Jan 14, 2014
Ray and Louise LeBlanc donated this 8-acre parcel in Canton to the Androscoggin Land Trust in 1998, which includes 3500 feet of Androscoggin River frontage and important wildlife habitat. The Preserve is located just down river from McCollister Island and was part of...
Jan 14, 2014
Three conservation easements were donated by Judith Marden to ALT in 2003 as the Marden-Chittick Refuge as an initial effort to permanently conserve one of the few blocks of remaining undeveloped land of over 1000 acres still remaining in Androscoggin County and...
Jan 14, 2014
This conservation easement on land owned by the City of Lewiston conserves approximately 35 acres along the pond to protect the pond’s natural resources, maintain water quality and preserve wildlife habitat. The project was a partnership between the land trust...
Jan 14, 2014
At the end of 2010, Maine Farmland Trust and Androscoggin Land Trust completed a collaborative effort to conserve 625 acres of working farmland and forest along the Androscoggin River on Gulf Island Pond. The land will remain privately owned, but it is permanently...
Jan 14, 2014
The Old Ferry Landing is a historic ferry landing site along State Route 140 in Canton. The property is approximately 0.35 acre in size and contains mostly floodplain forest. Directions: Take State Route 4 north to intersection with State Route 108 in Livermore. ...
Jan 14, 2014
This working farm was conserved in 2004 through funding from the Land for Maine’s Future Program and the Farmland Ranch Protection Program. In 2007 and 2010 the then landowners, Bob and Ella Mae Packard, generously donated two additional agricultural conservation...
