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MAHOOSUC LAND TRUST

Keeping a Globally
Important Forest Intact

Mahoosuc Land Trust has conserved 25,000 acres through its publicly accessible preserves, and conservation easements.

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.

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.

Our Focus Areas

Crooked River Watershed: Conserving Forests for Clean Water →

Upper Androscoggin River Valley →

Climate Resilience Initiative on 1.5 million acres →

Rumford Whitecap Mountain—Ellis River →

Upper Bear River and Upper Sunday River →

Community and Economy →

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	0.5
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	0.5
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	Rumford Whitecap Expansion	140
2018	McCoy-Chapman Forest	493
2021	Shelburne Riverlands	879
2023	Flint Mountain Wildland	295
	TOTAL ACRES	3724

Conservation Easements

Year	Property	Acres

1992	Williamson Family Tree Farm	133
1995	Songo Pond	40
2003	General Alger Farm	135
2005	Maggie Ring Nature Park	83
2007	Chandler Family Tree Farm	212
2009	First Mountain	126
2010	Concord River	4623
2013	Crow Mountain	240
2013	Flint Farm	162.5
2018	Hastings’ Farm	174
2021	Crooked River Headwaters	12264
2021	Stratton Meadow	13.6
2022	Buck's Ledge	646
2023	Sawin Hill Wildlands	140
2023	Shelburne Valley Forest	2670
	TOTAL ACRES	21658