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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.

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Our Focus Areas

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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.

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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
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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
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