Maine Coast Heritage Trust

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Creating more public access to the coast ≫

Climate

Making the coast more resilient to climate change ≫

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Helping Maine's coastal communities thrive ≫

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There's no place like the Maine coast...

...and we’re on a mission to keep it open, healthy, working, and beautiful.

Become an Anchor and join the community of people making a difference every month. More trails, campsites, boat launches, places to get outside. A coast more resilient to climate change. That's what you make possible.

Putting Your Donations to Work

179,580

acres conserved

335

coastal islands protected

100

miles of trail

155

preserves

Stories from the Coast

On Watch for the Bagaduce River

Bailey Bowden, from Penobscot, Maine, brings numerous talents and skills to his role at River Monitor for the Bagaduce

Invasive Plants Beware!

The Boothbay Regional Land Trust and Maine Coast Heritage Trust provided me with an opportunity to live and work in ways that I could have never dreamed.

Marshall Island Beach Clean Up

On this particular August day, we collected 860 pounds of plastic buoys, rope, and trash, From (only two) packed boatloads.

Summer at the Wells Reserve: An Office in the Marsh and Forest 

Each week, donned with work gloves, mosquito nets, and layers to prevent the brush from scratching us, we uprooted many invasive plants.

Lessons from a summer Downeast

When Intern Kayla learned she was moving to Downeast Maine for the summer, she worried about what she was going to do all summer. What she didn’t know then was how memorable her summer with Downeast Salmon Federation would be!

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What We’re Working on Now

Learn more about our ongoing conservation efforts and how you can make a difference for the Maine coast through specific causes or places you care about.

Initiatives to Make the Maine Coast More Resilient to Climate Change

Aerial view of islands The Islands Initiative
mcht-IMG_8346-hero The Marshes for Tomorrow Initiative
Rocky_Lakedji_0069b The Rivers Initiative
mcht-Forbes_Ponddji_0130-hero The Schoodic to Schoodic Initiative

Special Projects, Programs, and Campaigns

Cousins-River-Marsh-frontage Cousins River Fields and Marsh is now protected!
mcht-20211014_Aldermere_Farm_Belties_pasture_PC_Jacob_Baker-full The Aldermere & Erickson Campaign
Clover, Edith, Josephine, Sweet Ferns Maple Tapping copy The Babson Creek Learning Forest Project
mcht-2Y9A1287-hero The Chris’s Pond Expansion Project
Cutler-Harbor-Access-Project-Hero The Cutler Harbor Community Access Project is a Success!
0614161257 The Richard G. Rockefeller Conservation Internship Program
IMG_5340-2 The Seal Cove Pond Fishways Project
DSC_0205-B The Woodward Point Accessible Trail Project

Videos from the Coast

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2023 Richard G. Rockefeller Conservation Interns

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Babson Creek Learning Forest

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Old Pond Marsh

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Give Today

Protect coastal lands. Save habitat. Create more trails, campsites, and public water access. Empower Maine communities to save the places that make people’s lives better—from community gardens to public boat launches to working farms and forests.

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Stay up to date on important conservation news, field trips and events, and how you can help care for the coast.