March 13, 2025
Based out of MCHT’s Downeast Field Office in Whiting, Cathy Lookabaugh works as MCHT’s Community Outreach Manager for Washington County. Before starting this position in 2024, Cathy worked for about five years as the Education and Outreach Director with the Downeast Coastal Conservancy in Machias. Can you please describe your position? What does it mean […]
February 26, 2025
Aaron Englander, Associate Director of Stewardship at Aldermere Farm and Erickson Fields, joined MCHT as the Erickson Fields Farm and Program Manager in 2014. In 2023, he stepped into his current role as Associate Director, leading the successful completion of a $4.4 million capital campaign that will expand the growth and impact of these working […]
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 […]
August 26, 2024
By Cathy Lookabaugh, MCHT’s Washington County Community Outreach Manager What makes a landscape? Is it the wind of a river, the wildlife that calls it home, or the sometimes-unseen connections between water, soil, and life? This August, a group of curious young explorers set out to find the answers at Watershed Camp, hosted by Maine […]
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
Jane Arbuckle and Amanda Devine For nearly three decades, Jane Arbuckle guided Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s stewardship efforts and a team that grew as the amount of conserved land in our care grew year after year—exceeding 45,000 acres as she wrapped her tenure with MCHT earlier this year. Jane’s love of land and easy laughter […]
November 1, 2023
What do you think of when you imagine green space in the city? The first major city parks in America were basically gardens, with sculpted lawns, large paths, spots of shade, borders of flowers, and picturesque water features. But Clifford Park is nothing like that. The forested walk is difficult at times, genuinely so, and […]
August 3, 2023
By MCHT steward Caitlin Gerber When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself—the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change. — Rachel Carson, Edge of the Sea When Maine Coast Heritage […]
