Community Campaign

Community Campaign:

Summer 2006









Dear Friends,



As we write, the Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Fundraising Campaign is less than six months from its official

closing date of December 31, 2006. This does not mean the work of the Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea

Conservation Initiative will end! To the contrary, MtA2C’s 10 partner organizations will continue protecting

the region’s most significant ecological and recreational places indefinitely and to the best of our abilities.



What the Campaign’s closing date does mark is the end of MtA2C’s focused effort to raise $10 million in

support of the following work:

• Protecting 2,500 new acres of land;

• Continuing our municipal outreach program with town planners and volunteers;

• Expanding the capacity of the three land trusts that serve MtA2C’s six towns, and

• Setting up a stewardship fund to ensure MtA2C’s protected lands are well cared

for and safe for public use.



While this work will continue long after MtA2C’s

Campaign sunsets, we wanted to take a moment to

thank those of you – more than 650 of you, in fact

– who have helped by making a gift to the Campaign.

You are the reason we are cautiously optimistic about

reaching our fundraising goals!



But we still have so much to do. Many land

conservation projects are still in need of funding. For

example, we still need to protect:

• Over one mile of coastline in Kittery;

• Critically important habitat for Blanding’s and

Spotted Turtles;

• Drinking water supplies, and

• Recreation areas in Mt. Agamenticus’ northern regions that will connect through to the Tatnic region of

South Berwick, Wells, and Ogunquit.



With your continued support, we’ll reach our goal of protecting 2,500 additional acres of land and will

maintain the natural beauty and extraordinary quality of life we all value so highly.



Sincerely,







Helen Winebaum

Chair, Campaign Committee

Summer 2006 Community Campaign:

MTA2C



Saving the Tatnics Region

Mt. Agamenticus

The Great Works Regional Land Trust, in partnership with the Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation

to the Sea

Initiative, has the opportunity to conserve 9 properties in the Tatnic region within the next 12 months.

Conservation Initiative

If successful this will add 280 acres to the existing 947 acres of protected Tatnic land. The benefits

The partners of the

would include:

Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea

Conservation Initiative are • Hiking from Orris’ Falls in South Berwick over Mt. Agamenticus to the York River a

working together to achieve distance of 8 miles all on conserved land.

a common conservation • Restoring public access to Balancing Rock and Spring Hill Cliffs

goal: natural resource

• Hunting on contiguous tracts of land hundreds and some cases thousands of acres in size.

protection within a

• Maintaining the view of forests, fields, and farms from the top of Mt. Agamenticus which is

48,000-acre area, spanning

Maine’s six southernmost

accessible to everyone.

towns of Ogunquit, • Ensuring clean water for drinking, fishing, and swimming in our streams, estuaries, and beaches;

Wells, York, South Berwick, these parcels are in the headwaters of both the Ogunquit and Great Works Rivers.

Eliot, and Kittery. • Supporting landowners in maintaining working forests and farms producing timber, fuel, and

food through conservation easements.

• Protecting a portion of the Joy Farm written about by Sarah Orne Jewett

• Conserving critical habitat with the highest diversity of species in the state.

MtA2C’s partners are

pursuing conservation

on two levels: Tatnics Background

•

Land and conservation The Tatnic region is located just north of Mt. Agamenticus

easement acquisition, and in the towns of Wells, South Berwick, and Ogunquit. The

• region has a distinct geology from the surrounding area due

Partnerships with to the remnants of a volcano that at one time towered over

municipalities the area. The volcano erupted and then the cone collapsed

to realize each town’s forming a caldera. Four subsequent ice ages rounded off

conservation goals. the remaining rim into the ring of hills present today. This

history accounts for the unique bedrock, shallow soils, large

rocks, and numerous pocket wetlands and vernal pools.



Tatnic is unique in having some of the highest density of

vernal pools in New England. These temporary pools that

fill with snow melt and spring rains (but dry out in summer)

are critical to the life cycle of frogs, salamanders, turtles,

Mt. Agamenticus

insects, and even a species of fairy shrimp. Two species of

to the Sea turtles found in the Tatnics (Spotted and Blandings) are

PO Box 1241 listed as rare and endangered — mostly due to habitat loss.

York Harbor, ME 03911

Both the Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife and

www.matatosea.org

the Maine Natural Areas Program has identified this region

Beverly Shadley as critical habitat and in need of protection.

Campaign Director

207-363-7400

bshadley@gwi.net



Roger Cole

Coalition Coordinator

207-363-9133

mtatosea@comcast.net



Elaine Manning

Campaign Assistant

207-363-7400

Summer 2006 Community Campaign:

MTA2C



LMF and LIP Grants Received

The partners of the Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative are delighted and honored to announce the receipt of two

major grant awards totaling $471,000 from the Land for Maine’s Future Program (LMF) and the Landowner Incentive Program (LIP).



LMF was created by the Maine Legislature to secure “the traditional

Maine heritage of public access to Maine’s land and water resources

or continued quality and availability of natural resources important to

the interests and continued heritage of Maine people.” The LIP is a

United States Fish and Wildlife Service funding program administered

by the Maine Natural Area’s Program to conserve important habitats

for rare, threatened, and endangered wildlife, plants, and natural

communities in Maine.



Both grants will be used to help protect land in the Tatnic region

of Wells and South Berwick. This land is especially valuable as it

supports several rare and/or endangered animals and plants, including

the Blanding’s Turtle. Protecting the Tatnic lands will also help to

create a conservation link between the northern and central region of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s

Core Focus Area on Mt. Agamenticus. (Please see Tatnic article on previous page for more information.)





An Act ofGenerosity Saves a Family’s Land Legacy Forever

Brothers Calvin and Thomas Hosmer have granted a 30-acre conservation easement to

the York Land Trust that will preserve the character of Brave Boat Harbor Farm, allow for

continued agricultural uses, and prevent future development of fields and a mile of ocean

frontage. The property features a mixed hardwood forest, a pond and wetlands and a

stand of Shagbark Hickory trees — a species that is noted for its rarity in Southern Maine

where it is at its northernmost range. The open fields provide prime habitat for a variety

of field-dependent flora and fauna that thrive on the property.



“YLT is honored to be the recipient of a conservation easement on this land of

remarkable beauty and natural significance,” said Doreen MacGillis, Executive Director

of the York Land Trust. “It’s one of the most valuable parcels the Trust has helped to

conserve in its twenty year history.” The property is a cornerstone parcel abutting

conserved lands in the Rachel

Carson National Wildlife Refuge and is in close proximity to other YLT

conservation properties (see map).



The MtA2C partners join YLT in thanking the Hosmer family for their extraordinary gift.

Summer 2006 Community Campaign:

MTA2C

Many thanks to our new donors and members!

The partners of MtA2C are delighted to report nearly 460 new gifts have been received since our last Bulletin issue in November 2005.

Thanks so very much to our most recent donors.

We extend a hearty welcome to the xxx individuals who have become new members of the Kittery, Great Works Region, or York Land Trusts while

making a MtA2C gift. We also thank those Kittery and Great Works Regional Land Trusts members who made an additional gift to MtA2C over

and above their annual giving to each land trust. Last but certainly not least, we thank the many South Berwick, Wells, and Ogunquit donors who

made a special gift to help conserve the Tatnic lands.

AP Framig & Design Ms. Adele Demers Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Harmon Mr. Timothy P. Maguire Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Scontras

Ms. Joan Abbott Ms. Aime R. DeNault Steve Harriman & Nancy Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maina Mr. David M. Scott

Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Denny Mr. John Hartshorne Maine Arborist Association Ms. Mary R. Scripp

Sandy Agrafiotis Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Densch Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harvell Maine Coast Protection Initiative Ms. Joan Seariac

Joseph Aiello & Mary Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Craig R. Dickinson Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Haselton Maine Initiatives Louise A. Segal

Susan & Ted Alex Ms. Denise E. Dillon Ms. Anita Haskell Ms. Irene Maliszewski Ms. Karen A. Seleb

Mr. & Mrs. John N. Amee Garry Dominguez Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hasty Mr. & Mrs. John T. Maloney Wunderly & Travis Shaw

Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Mr. Edward J. Dimuzio Ms. Susan Hathaway Ms. Meghan E. Maloney Bruce Shaw & Paul LaCharite

Ms. Eleanor L. Andrews Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dominguez Mr. Matthew X. Healy Mark A. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Roger Siciliano

Anonymous (3) Ms. Susan P. Donnelly Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Held Building & Remodeling Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Siegel

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Archie’s Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Downey Ms. Martha Hesse Cheryl J. Marotta Victoria A. Simon & Michael Modern

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Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ayre Ms. Marianne Dunn Ms. Lisa J. Hoffman Meadowmere Resort Mr. & Mrs. Tin Smith

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Mr. & Mrs. Ralph D. Barr Mr. Robert D. Eaton Ms. Jean Hosey Mr. Harold I. Mitchell Ms. Judith A. Spiller

Ms. Linda E. Barton Mr. & Mrs. Dana Edelman Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Hosmer, III Patti Mitchem & Fred Wildnauer Mr. Carleton E. Spring

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Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Billipp Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Estes Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Ives Ms. Janice A. Neal Mr. & Mrs. James W. Stevens

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Ms. Sandra L. Blessing Jack & Ellen Farber Ms. Mary Jenkins Mr. & Mrs. David J. Neilson Ms. Nancy Stevens

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne A. Boardman Ms. Sherrill Fawcett Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Robert Johnson Ms. Alice H. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Randall T. Stewart

Mr. Bruce L. Boardman Ms. Cynthia Fenneman Lila C. Johnson Ms. Elizabeth A. Newberry Stone Menu Cafe

Mr. Anthony J. Bock Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Ferranti Mr. & Mrs. James M. Johnston, III Mr. & Mrs. Bion E. Noble Mr. & Mrs. James W. Stone

Dr. John R. Bockstoce Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Denise R. Joy Mr. & Mrs. Rowland Oakes Ms. Gail Stuart

Jeff & Molly Bolster Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Firicano Juniper Hill Inn The Oarweek Mr. & Mrs. Robert Studley

Jay & Priscilla Boomer First Parish Church Anneke Jan Kate O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sturtevant

Boulder Oak Construction Ms. Grace V. Flaherty Mr. Gregory Kandel Mr. & Mrs. Kevin S. O’Conner Col. & Mrs. Cyrus B. Sweet, III

Suzanne & Peter Bowman Dr. & Mrs. David P. Flavin Mr. Michael W. Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Edmund O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. David Suchow

Shelley E. Brass Captain & Mrs. Robert Flolid Mr. Barry A. Kean Oddfellows Independent Order Mr. David J. Surette

Ms. Elfriede E.M. Brennan Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Foley Brian & Judi Kelley Ms. Kelly O’Loughlin Ms. Barbara Sussenberger

Mr. Matthew Brock Food & Company Dr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Kelly, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Ouellette Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Tedesco

Mr. Walter J. Brooks Ms. Ellen F. Forbes Mr. Richard W. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Pageau, Jr. Mr. Bruce G. Thayer

Ms. Gretchen R Bruce Lee Forrest Mr. & Mrs. Kennett R. Kendall, Jr. Ms. Theresa Painter Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. Thorner

Mr. Jerome M. Bshara Dr. Gerard Fountain Mr. Charles Kendall Ms. Laura K. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. James L. Thrasher

Rich & Hanna Bulger Ms. Jennifer A. Fox & Thomas Hausmann Michael E. Kenslea Ms. Jeanette S. Paul Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Todd, Jr.

John & Anna Bullard Alexandra E. Fogg Mr. & Mrs. David Kerr Paul Ladd, Photographer Muriel S. Tonge

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Peter & Susan Chines Michael Getty & Sheila Pilkenton Captain & Mrs. John S. Lamade, USN-RET Ms. Lois Z. Pyle Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Wagner

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Ms. Deborah Cotter Mr. Michael A. Gowell Jeff Lind & Audrey Bohanan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. Richardson Weyers Painting LLC

Mr. Alfred J. Cotton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William Grabin Ms. Holly Littlefield Mr. William Roberge Ms. Kelly E. Whalen

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Ms. Alynda J. Cowles Rob & Kathy Gray Mr. James F. Logel Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Whitaker, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Craig Great Works Regional Land Trust Dorothy E. Logue Eleanor E. Rogers Ms. Mary Jane Whitcomb

Cranberry Hill Antiques Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Greenwood Ms. Jessica JM Long Mr. & Mrs. John Rohrer Mr. Bernard F. Wideman

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Ms. Dianne C. Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hapgood Mr. MacLaren H. MacGregor Ms. Mary Schauffler Mr. & Mrs. William G. Zimmerman

Ms. Dianne C. Dean Mr. & Mrs. David W. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. Alan D. Maddaus Mr. & Mrs. Martin E Schorer

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