December 10, 2024
By Laura Poppick On a warm July morning, I walked half a mile down a grassy trail at Woodward Point Preserve in Brunswick to reach the rocky shore. My stroll through this 87.5-acre conserved peninsula felt, in a certain way, like time travel. I passed first through meadows of newly blooming goldenrod; then through older […]
December 10, 2024
A career conservationist on why he decided to make a legacy gift to Maine Coast Heritage Trust What are some of your first experiences of Maine? One of my earliest memories is from a trip I took with my family out to Whitehead Island in Muscle Ridge. That was the first time I smelled the […]
February 29, 2024
February 2024 – The Mills administration recently announced Sears Island as the preferred location for an offshore wind hub to facilitate deepwater ocean wind energy development in the Gulf of Maine. Decades ago, Sears Island was acquired by the Maine Department of Transportation to support marine transportation as part of the state’s three-port strategy. In […]
November 1, 2023
When you think of conservation lands in Maine, perhaps your mind first goes to iconic rocky coastlines or tidal rivers with salt marsh sparrows perched amongst reeds and grasses. Landscapes with striking vistas that provide habitat for rare, threatened and endangered species. Such extraordinary tracts of land do, indeed, make up a large portion of […]
November 1, 2023
Friends of MCHT share their work and stories Communities across Maine cite lack of affordable housing as a primary concern. MCHT is working with partners, like Island Housing Trust, to help address the issue while preserving wildlife habitat, clean water, working waterfronts, and places for people to be in nature. Island Housing Trust Island Housing […]
March 13, 2023
These days at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, climate change factors into most decisions we make about how we conserve land. To ensure our work has the greatest impact, we’ve launched special initiatives to protect and restore some of our coast’s most vital and resilient habitat types, coastal rivers and tidal marshes. We’ve been involved in […]
February 21, 2023
Nature Bummin’ with MCHT Steward Kirk Gentalen So, January ’23 has come and gone, and February announced its presence with authority by providing a fierce chill that sent me and my son off the ice and to the movies (“Knock at the cabin”—wonderfully uplifting movie). Now, with the first half of winter being just about […]
October 25, 2022
Saving Maine Marshes Protecting land is one of the most valuable tools we have to respond to climate change, and on the Maine coast, protection and restoration of tidal marshes has a profound impact. Tidal marshes are incredibly effective at removing gases like carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing them in roots and soils below—as much as […]
October 25, 2022
From Kate Stookey, Maine Coast Heritage Trust President and CEO “[…] to care for this land and the lives and livelihoods it supports. For me, that’s what conservation is all about.” My first six months at Maine Coast Heritage Trust have flown by, and I continue to be impressed and inspired by the dedication, expertise, […]
October 10, 2022
Imagine your classroom isn’t just a room with four walls but a mossy coniferous forest, salt marsh, and epic granite outcropping overlooking a winding tidal creek and the hills of Acadia. The students of The Community School of Mount Desert Island (TCS) have been so lucky, thanks in part to the generosity of a landowner […]
