Remembering Malcolm White

Saturday, October 15th

11:00 a.m.

Beech Hill Preserve

116 Beech Hill Road, Rockport

Coastal Mountains Land Trust is deeply saddened to have recently lost a dear friend, long-time member, stewardship volunteer, and board member Malcolm White. Malcolm and his wife Nancy have been part of the Land Trust since 1988, including stints as preserve and easement monitors, as captain of our stewardship volunteers program, as a finance committee member, and Board Treasurer. Most of all, Malcolm liked being outdoors with our regular Wednesday work crew talking amongst friends and putting something together or taking it apart.

We invite you to join is in celebration of the work Malcolm White did for our community, our land, and our organization.

11:00am – Dedication of the stewardship building on the Beech Hill Preserve in honor of Malcolm,

followed by a walk up the hill to Beech Nut for a fire, apple cider, cookies and conversation.

Park in the preserve parking lot or in the overflow field and walk 1/3 mile up to and down the new trail towards Erickson Fields. Watch for signs.

Rides to the hut will be available as needed. Email info@coastalmountains.org

Tea on the Porch Event

Conversation and Reading with Scott Dickerson

Friday, October 21

Coastal Mountains Land Trust

101 Mt. Battie Street, Camden

1:00 p.m.

Join Land Trust staff and board members as we catch up with what the organization’s former Executive Director, Scott Dickerson has been up to. We are hosting a reading from and a conversation about his new novel, Telling Stone, at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, October 21st at the Land Trust office. Event will be held outside on our porch or under our front porch and a tent if weather requires, so please dress warmly for the occasion. Warm beverages to be provided by the Land Trust. 

25% of all proceeds from book sales to benefit Coastal Mountains Land Trust. Books may be purchased on the day of the reading or by stopping by the office through November 15th. Checks for the purchase of a book should be made out to ‘Scott Dickerson,’ who will in turn be contributing 25% of all proceeds to the Land Trust.

Thursday, November 3

10:00 a.m.

Meadow Brook Preserve, Swanville

Join Coastal Mountains Land Trust, Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital’s Journey to Health program for a Happy Wanderers Hike at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 3rd at the Meadow Brook Preserve in Swanville. This will be a hike totaling 2 miles on easy terrain. Reminder of hunting season - wear orange!!

How to get there: From downtown Belfast, take High Street/Route 137 for 2.6 miles. Take a slight right onto Oak Hill Road. In 2.3 miles, the preserve will be on the right; park along the road.

The Happy Wanderers meet on the first Thursday of each month at the trailhead of a Coastal Mountains Land Trust preserve. The hikes range in location from Rockport to Searsport. Each outing is led by a Coastal Mountains and Journey to Health staff member. We hope you can join us!   Register here.  

                                        Full 2022 Happy Wanderers schedule                                     

Mt. Tuck Trail Opening

Friday, November 4

2:00 p.m. Trail Dedication

Self guided hike to follow

Join us for the long-awaited opening of Coastal Mountains Land Trust's newest trail! Visit our 244-acre Preserve on the new trail, which traverses this coastal mountain across its summit and to a scenic lookout with views of the bay, Blue Hill Peninsula, and Acadia. 

Directions: From Belfast, turn north onto Route 1 off High Street. Drive 14.4 miles, passing Searsport and Stockton Springs. Just before getting to the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, turn left onto the Meadow Road. Continue 0.6mi and park on the pull off or side of the road by the Preserve sign and kiosk. Do not block the entrance to the dirt road, as neighboring landowners and logging trucks use it. In Google maps, search for corner of Blanchard Land and Meadow Road in Stockton Springs.

What you need to know:

The Proposed Wind Port & Protecting Sears Island

Friends of Sears Island will hold a free public meeting on Wednesday, October 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., in the Abbott Room at Belfast Free Library, to give an update on the status of the proposal to develop a “wind port” in Searsport. Large floating wind turbines would be constructed and launched from the port for deployment in the Gulf of Maine. At this meeting we will review the process so far and provide analysis of new information that is expected to come during the September 29 meeting of the Offshore Wind Port Advisory Group in Augusta. Sears Island and Mack Point are identified as feasible locations for this port, if such a port will be built in Penobscot Bay.

To learn more about the state’s plan, go to https://friendsofsearsisland.org/osw-resources/.

HANNAFORD BLOOMIN’ 4 GOOD PROGRAM BENEFITS

COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST IN OCTOBER

Coastal Mountains Land Trust has been selected as the beneficiary of the Hannaford Bloomin’ 4 Good Program! For the month of October, each time a Bloomin' 4 Good Bouquet with a red circle sticker is purchased at the Hannaford located at 145 Elm Street in Camden, $1 will be donated to the Land Trust. The more bouquets sold, the more donations raised!

To learn more about this program, please visit hannaford.bloomin4good.com.

Thank you for your support!

WISH LIST

• Hand dolly for carting heavy items to and from the outside basement entrance of our office
• Used golf cart for Beech Hill events (This is a stretch wish, we know! But just in case you have one kicking around that you'd like us to take off your hands...)