Jan 14, 2014
This 392 acre property contains a wide variety of upland forest habitat and steep ledges and is owned by the Androscoggin Land Trust. Previously partially conserved through a long-term conservation lease with Verso Paper, ALT purchased this and other properties in...
Jan 14, 2014
This property of 380 acres features tall white pines thriving in the thin, hillier soils on the east side of Alden Hill Road. West of the road stands of sugar maple and white pine dominate the hardwood forests along the Androscoggin River. Previously partially...
Jan 14, 2014
This 100-acre former dairy farm, and former Turner Poor Farm, is on the crest of a hill with views of Mounts Washington, Jefferson, and Madison on a clear day. Franklin and Phyllis Ambrose generously donated a conservation easement on this property to ALT in...
Oct 28, 2013
This 225-acre ecologically diverse conservation area contains over a mile and a half of significant Androscoggin River frontage. A variety of habitats are found here including floodplain forest, stands of spruce on steep slopes and large white pine. Also on the...
Jan 14, 2014
In memory of her parents, Arthur and Connie Fish, Lorraine Fish generously donated an agricultural conservation easement to Androscoggin Land Trust on approximately 80 acres of working farmland surrounding the Fish Farm, an active dairy farm off Route 219. This...
Jan 14, 2014
This 170-acre privately -owned working farm was conserved in 2008 through a generous donation by landowner Ripley Swan, funding by the Land for Maine’s Future Program and with considerable assistance by the USDA’s Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program....
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
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
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
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...
