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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
March 13, 2023
Updated: April 2025 A major contributor to climate change is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thankfully, trees, plants, and soils can draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and respirate out oxygen. (That’s one of the many reasons why we love them so much!) As farmers, we’re particularly focused on regenerative agriculture, and making our […]
October 10, 2022
On a drizzly morning in June, a group of Maine Coast Heritage Trust stewards, marsh scientists, and restoration specialists met at the Old Pond Preserve trailhead in Hancock, where they spent the day in knee-high boots exploring the salt marsh and learning all they could about how it’s functioning—or, rather, not functioning as well as […]
December 8, 2021
Conditions on the Maine coast are rapidly changing. The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 95% of the world’s oceans; sea level is expected to rise six feet in the next fifty years; some of our roads and bridges are already under water at high tide; storms are increasing in intensity and frequency. Here’s […]
July 19, 2021
Almost anywhere on the planet, collections of plants, animals, fungi, and other microorganisms have coevolved in balanced systems that ensure the survival of all and the domination of none. So what happens when a species from another part of the world is abruptly added to the mix? Because local species don’t always have systems for […]
