Purinton Homestead Conservation Area, an undeveloped and traditional rural agrarian and forest preserve with 1 mile of walking trails in the village of West Bowdoin, was generously donated to the Androscoggin Land Trust in 2001 by the Purinton Family. The Preserve...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Three conservation easements donated to ALT in 1998, 1999 and 2001 conserve a total area of 262-acres along North Parish Road. The properties consist of agricultural fields, woods, and pond shoreline within the historic landscape of Merrill Hill and Pleasant Pond....
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...
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...
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...
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...
This 143.6-acre property in Jay near the Spruce Mountain Ski Area overlooks the former French Falls in the Androscoggin River, a drop of six feet in the river that was blasted and mostly removed during the early industrialization of the area. The original 117-acre...
