MAHOOSUC LAND TRUST
Keeping a Globally
Important Forest Intact
Mahoosuc Land Trust has conserved roughly 22,000 acres through its publicly accessible preserves, and conservation easements on private lands.
These include Androscoggin River boat landings, iconic summits like Rumford Whitecap and Puzzle Mountain, working farms and forests, and dozens of miles of multi-use recreational trails.
Mahoosuc Land Trust is conserving and sharing the Mahoosuc region's important natural lands with its wild and human communities, now and for the future. Today we also seek to better understand the Wabanaki cultural importance of the lands we steward.
Our Focus Areas
Tradition of Conservation
Since 1989, MLT has focused on those critical lands which protect biodiversity, water quality, and habitat connectivity, mitigate climate change, and deliver recreational, scenic, cultural, economic, spiritual, and ecological benefits. These lands include “working landscapes” contributing to local economies and quality of life, provided that they also support other conservation values.
Increasingly, we see how the region depends on a tourism economy attracted to the region’s beautiful open space and high quality nature-based recreational offerings resulting from government and non-profit conservation.
MLT Preserves
Year | Property | Acres |
|---|---|---|
1990 | Schools Property | 7 |
1990 | Scruton Family Tree Farm
| 204 |
1991 | Kendall Island | 35 |
1993 | Philbrook Islands | 22 |
1995 | Intervale Gateway | 18 |
1997 | Newt's Landing | 0.3 |
1999 | Willis Island | 12 |
2001 | Moran's Landing | 4.5 |
2005 | Stewart Family Preserve | 486 |
2006 | Goodnow Island | 9 |
2007 | Rumford Whitecap Mountain Preserve | 752 |
2007 | Grafton Loop Trail Parking | 0.3 |
2014 | Step Falls Preserve | 24 |
2014 | Hastings' Landing | 1 |
2014 | Glassface Mountain Conservation Area | 32 |
2015 | Ellis River Conservation Area | 228 |
2016 | Valentine Farm | 147 |
2017 | Whitecap: Lots 36 and 37 | 140 |
2018 | McCoy-Chapman Forest | 493 |
2021 | Shelburne Riverlands
| 879 |
2023 | Flint Mountain Wildland | 295 |
total | 3428.6 |
MLT Conservation Easements
Property | Year | Acres |
|---|---|---|
Williamson Family Tree Farm | 1992 | 133 |
Songo Pond | 1995 | 40 |
General Alger Farm | 2003 | 135 |
Maggie Ring Nature Park | 2005 | 83 |
Chandler Family Tree Farm | 2007 | 212 |
First Mountain | 2009 | 126 |
Concord River | 2010 | 4623 |
Crow Mountain | 2013 | 240 |
Flint Farm | 2013 | 162.5 |
Hastings’ Farm | 2018 | 174 |
Crooked River Headwaters | 2021 | 12264 |
Stratton Meadow | 2021 | 13.6 |
Buck's Ledge | 2022 | 646 |
Total | 2023 | 18848 |
