March 14, 2012 Messrs. Don Dougherty Ken Gordon Co-Chairs, St. Croix International Waterway Commission St Croix International Waterway Commission Box 610, Calais, ME 04619 Re: The St. Croix International Waterway Commission 2012 Canadian Heritage River Report Gentlemen: We appreciate the opportunity through Steve Keith of our Board to share resource Read more…
In 2012, the Land Trust began a multi-year effort to help strengthen the protection of the Canadian Shore. A Cross Border Working Agreement was executed with The Nature Trust of New Brunswick to help facilitate future funding of conservation projects within the International corridor. The relationship with The Nature Trust Read more…
The Woodie Wheaton Land Trust Center – was completed in 2009 to serve as the Trust’s business office and meeting facility. Through the generosity of Ruth Wheaton, wife of Woodie Wheaton, came the donation of property. It was one of the most desirable building sites in the center of the Read more…
2008 – West Grand Lake – the Trust provided financial collateral to a sister organization, the Downeast Lakes Land Trust, toward the conservation of a 22,000-acre parcel along West Grand Lake. (Please check back as we rewrite the history of this project. It will be posted soon along with photos Read more…
Woodie Wheaton Land Trust purchases and preserves East Grand Lake’s Greenland Island 2008 – Greenland Island – The Woodie Wheaton Land Trust has purchased scenic Greenland Island, in East Grand Lake. The purchase was undertaken for the benefit of the general public — for the aesthetic and recreational enjoyment of Read more…
2010 – East Grand Watershed Initiative – A five (5) year effort lead by the Woodie Wheaton Land Trust named the “East Grand Watershed Initiative” was committed to a path of conservation through an outright purchase of fee interest in 2011 by The Conservation Fund. The 12,013 acres of forest Read more…
2001 to 2005 – Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership – Actively participated in partnership spearheaded by the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) and the Downeast Lakes Land Trust to extinguish development rights on 312,000 acres of forest land in Washington County. The Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership is the largest conservation project Read more…
Spednic Lake is one of the largest lakes in Maine and one of only four lakes over 15,000 acres in the state that remain largely undeveloped. The absence of development to date has supported one of Maine’s last remaining native landlocked salmon fisheries and some of the best smallmouth bass Read more…
In 1996, Dale Wheaton and Mark Danforth witnessed a float plane land on Spednic Lake and someone stepped out to place a “For Sale” sign on the Birch Islands, always considered the Crown jewel of Spednic Lake. The very thought of the heart and soul of this watershed being “For Read more…
In 1995, the Trust quietly promoted a 500-foot easement along more than 16 miles of Spednic Lake shoreline and fee interest which included Walker, Monument, Hairy, Pickle (Woodie Wheaton Island) and 4 other unnamed islands conveyed by Baskahegan Lumber Company to the State of Maine.