2006 Grants Awarded by the Fund for Maine Land Conservation

Project Information Committee Grant Amount* Total Grant Amount*
Frenchman Bay Conservancy, Hancock for a strategic planning process to include discussions with other land trusts in Hancock County about collaboration, outreach to constituents and conservation partners, and an organizational self-assessment

$6,500.00

$7,500.00

Land Trust Alliance Inc. (Northeast Program), Saratoga Springs, NY for the Maine Coast Protection Initiative to provide training in strategic land conservation planning to coastal Maine land trusts

$4,000.00

$4,000.00

Mahoosuc Land Trust, Bethel for the Mahoosuc Conservation Initiative, a collaboration working to develop a strategy to protect traditional land uses in the Mahoosuc Mountain Range

$7,500.00

$7,500.00

Maine Audubon Society, Falmouth for the next phase of leadership work in the ‘Beginning with Habitat’ project, a statewide, collaborative program that works with towns to incorporate natural resource conservation into local land use planning

$5,000.00

$5,000.00

Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, Newcastle to support the collaboration of three land trusts to increase the quantity of lands protected in the Sheepscot Watershed and build the capacity of the organizations

$7,500.00

$7,500.00

The Trust for Public Land, Portland to collaborate with Portland Trails and the Bayside Neighborhood Association to develop the Portland Bayside Trail

$5,000.00

$5,000.00

York Land Trust, York Harbor for a collaboration between the Kittery, Great Works and York Land Trusts to develop seven new stewardship policies that must be in place before the organizations are eligible for accreditation by the Land Trust Alliance

$5,986.00

$5,986.00

*Some projects were funded through multiple sources. The amount awarded by the Fund for Maine Land Conservation Committee appears in the middle column.


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