Seeking a New Executive Director
May 06, 2017Georges River Land Trust is seeking an energetic and experienced individual who is passionate about conservation to serve as Executive Director. Click here for more information. Please share this news with anyone you think might be interested in joining our conservation team!
Sponsors Support Land Trust’s Conservation Efforts
April 12, 2017First National Bank and First Advisors representatives recently presented a check to Georges River Land Trust as lead sponsors of this year’s Gardens in the Watershed tour. This year marks the tour’s 26th anniversary and will showcase five gardens in the middle watershed on Sunday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Funds ...
12 Ways to Give to Georges River Land Trust
December 21, 2016
You can help us conserve the places you love in the Georges River Watershed region by supporting our work to:
- Maintain 3,800 acres in permanent conservation
- Provide 60 miles of ...
2015: An Important Year for Conservation
February 08, 2016In 2015, Georges River Land Trust partnered with a municipality, a multi-generational family owned business, and several landowners to secure 104 additional acres of conservation land throughout the watershed. Two of our preserves gained valuable acreage with generous donations from neighboring landowners and two easements in the middle and lower watershed will ensure working forests ...
Langlais Property in Cushing Gifted to Georges River Land Trust
November 18, 2015The Georges River Land Trust announced the donation of the studio and home of nationally renowned artist Bernard Langlais to the Land Trust by the Wisconsin-based Kohler Foundation. The November 18 transfer of the 90-acre property to the Georges River Land Trust represents the culmination of three years of art conservation dedicated to the works ...
Welcome New Board Members
October 08, 2015The Land Trust is pleased to announce that David Williams and Paul Sampson were elected to the Board of Directors at our annual meeting on September 15, 2015.
David Williams is the founder of Williams CPA Group, LLC. David grew up in Camden and spent much of his youth traipsing through the woods and canoeing the ...
Working With Our Neighbors
June 29, 2015With two great land trusts to either side of us, Coastal Mountains Land Trust (CMLT) and Medomak Valley Land Trust (MVLT), we are always looking for new ways to collaborate.
So far in 2015, our joint efforts have included a wide variety of events that display the breadth of our collaboration. In early June, we ...
Restoration and Energy Performance at Langlais
April 30, 2015Are you curious about what is happening at the future Langlais Sculpture Preserve? The lovely and classic 19th century farmhouse that sites atop of a ledge outcrop had been home to Bernard and Helen for many years and was most recently the residence for Colby College’s curator, Hannah Blunt. Now, with ...
2015 Membership Drive Kicks Off
March 30, 2015It’s time to look forward to our busy spring and summer seasons and all of our exciting upcoming projects! With a gift to our membership fund, you will lead the way in supporting significant conservation work over the coming months. We are asking you to give this spring to enable us to accomplish even more ...
Georges River Artist-in-Residence is Announced for 2015
February 27, 2015The Georges River Land Trust and the K2 Family Foundation are pleased to introduce their 2015 Artist-in-Residence, George Mason of Damariscotta Mills. Mason is the third artist-in-residence of this partnership that offers professional visual artists, performing artists, and writers the opportunity to pursue their artistic disciplines while being inspired by the Georges River watershed’s extraordinary ...
Georges River Land Trust Earns National Recognition
December 19, 2014Georges River Land Trust has achieved land trust accreditation from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance.
“We are very excited and honored to be receive this national recognition,” said Jim Robbins, Board President of Georges River Land Trust. “We are so grateful to our members ...
The Kelpie Gallery Supports Conservation
October 07, 2014On Saturday, September 13 The Kelpie Gallery in the Weskeag Village of South Thomaston presented Wet Paint on the ‘Weskeag!, a fundraiser for the Georges River Land Trust. Participating artists created works of art on lands surrounding the Weskeag River, which were auctioned off that evening to an enthusiastic crowd. The auction brought ...
Georges River Land Trust Applies for Accreditation
April 08, 2014The Georges River Land Trust is pleased to announce that it is applying for accreditation from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Land trusts who meet national quality standards for protecting important natural places forever are recognized with accreditation from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. As part of the application process, we invite you to comment ...
Bernard Langlais: Restoring and Preserving the Legacy
February 27, 2014We are excited to share this short film about renowned Maine artist, Bernard “Blackie” Langlais. “Blackie” created over 3,000 indoor and outdoor works of art during his lifetime, many of them constructed in response to his surrounding landscape at his Cushing homestead. Unique, edgy and very creative, he created pieces on the land that are ...
Eastern Tire Sales Support Conservation
September 04, 2013Eastern Tire Inc. in Rockland donated $5 to Georges River Land Trust for every Michelin tire sold between August 22 and September 24, 2013. Thank you all for buying your tires because Eastern Tire just sent us a check for $450! Georges River Land Trust is grateful to Eastern Tire for their long ...
Land Trust Aids Owls Head Conservation Commission
July 16, 2013The Georges River Land Trust is happy to be assisting the Owls Head Conservation Commission with a community conservation project. We are lending our expertise in land conservation to this effort led by Owls Head volunteers to purchase the “Owls Head Village Common”, a small parcel in the town center that will be a place ...
Trolley Marsh Preserve Purchased by Land Trust
April 25, 2013Over one hundred acres of open fields, young hardwood forests, mature pine, wetlands, perennial streams and marshland are now conserved by the Georges River Land Trust as a permanent asset to the Warren community and surrounding area for local residents to visit and explore. With grant funding from the Maine Natural Resources Conservation Program and ...
Conserving the Langlais Estate in Cushing
March 12, 2013Georges River Land Trust is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Colby College Museum of Art and the Kohler Foundation. We are working together to protect the Cushing, ME, estate of Bernard “Blackie” Langlais for conservation and to create a public sculpture park. Blackie Langlais (1921-77), ...
Georges River Land Trust to Acquire New Parcel of Land
January 18, 2013The Georges River Land Trust, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve the wilderness along the Georges River, is poised to acquire a large section of estuarial wetlands along the river in Warren. The land, which belongs to a collection of relatives from a family, comprises 113 acres of the sensitive marine habitat that ...
Working Forestland Conserved in Appleton
January 11, 2013A local family-run business, Robbins Lumber Company, recently donated a conservation easement to the Georges River Land Trust (GRLT) on extensive riverfront and woodland property in Appleton. For the past five generations, Robbins Lumber has been responsibly managing 28,000 acres of woodlands in Maine, and has received several national and state awards for ...