CONSERVATION

Learning, Living and Leaving a Legacy

Summer 2006 Volume 1 Number 1

 

Woolwich Conservation Commission (WCC)

Goals for 2006-2007

Produce a completed draft, or draft proposal, for an open space plan, including provision for implementation, to be submitted to the Comprehensive Plan Review Committee for their action. (Based on three community visioning sessions held in 2005)

Continue the momentum we have established in encouraging the development of recreational trails in Woolwich, ideally tending toward a trail network linking conservation areas and providing wildlife corridors.

Summer 2006

Volume 1

Number 1

First

Issue

Ever

Newsletter

of the

Woolwich

Conservation

Commission

Nequasset Watershed Project

Summer 2006

Volunteers from Woolwich, Dresden and Wiscasset have walked the watershed this summer with questionnaires and educational materials for the landowners within the Nequasset ìwatershed citizenshipî.  This effort is phase one of a greater study in Maine of all the ìGreat Pondsî, of which Nequasset is one.  The goals of the project are to inventory situations potentially harmful to the health of the watershed, and to encourage good stewardship by educating landowners about good management practices that will keep the lake clear and clean.

Nequasset

Watershed

Project

Summer

2006

Woolwich Days August 5, 2006

Please visit the WCC Booth at the Woolwich Days on August 5th, and see exhibits on the results of the visioning sessions and on the watershed study.  Also, there will be signup sheets for those interested in participating in any of our volunteer opportunities.

Woolwich

Days

August 5

 2006

Merrymeeting Fields Opening

On August 13th from 4 to 7 p.m. we will be celebrating a new reserve on Chopps Point, ìMerrymeeting Fieldsî.  This new Lower Kennebec Regional Land Trust (LKRLT) property spans Chopps Point from the creek to Merrymeeting Bay.  We would like to link these hiking trails with trails in other conservation areas in the region, as a first step in a long term project to developing a town-wide linkage of conservation areas.  The ribbon-cutting ceremony at Merrymeeting Fields will take place on Sunday, August 13th AT 4 p.m. at the new sign and kiosk on Chopps Point Road.  There will be an opportunity to explore the trails and a ìLEAVE NO TRACEî presentation by the Conservation Commission followed by adjournment at 5:00 to the Dayís Ferry Church. There, we will have a brief panel discussion with our legislators on the economic importance of conservation for Maine followed by a potluck supper and an evening program (still to be determined).

  Merrymeeting

Fields

August 13

2006

Related Web Links

Web Link Woolwich Town Office www.woolwichme.com

Web Link  Maine Coastal Program http://www.state.me.us/spo/mcp/

Web Link Bath Water District www.bathwd.org

Web Link Lower Kennebec Regional Land Trust www.lkrlt.org

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