kayaking, lake androscoggin
Staff photo by Travis Barrett
WATER WAY: Don Cameron, left, a botanist for the Maine Natural Areas Program, and Theresa Kerchner, the stewardship director for the Kennebec Land Trust, paddle down the Dead River near the Brackett-Longley Rare Plant Preserve.


Brackett-Longley
Staff photo by Travis Barrett
GUARDED: A bald eagle sits high on its perch over the Brackett-Longley Rare Plant Preserve along Androscoggin Lake in Wayne.

KENNEBEC LAND TRUST

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Brackett-Longley Rare Plants

KLT PROPERTIES

Webbber-Rogers Farmstead Conservation Area
Governor Curtis Homestead
Besse Conservation Area/Gott Pasture Preserve
Cobbossee Island Properties
Davidson Preserve/Vassalboro Wildlife Habitat
Brackett-Longley Rare Plant Preserve/Perkins Woods

STORIES

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Schedule
Conservation efforts vital to protecting important bird habitat
[July 6, 2008]
Kennebec Land Trust relies on 'grassroots' efforts
[July 6, 2008]
Curtis homestead preserved for Mainers
[July, 7 2008]
Vernal pools fuel Maine woods
[July, 8 2008]
Public properties with private feel retreat
[July, 9 2008]
Conservation education remains constant challenge
[July, 10 2008]
Kennebec Land trust has fantastic opportunities for the entire family
[July, 11 2008]

SATURDAY, July 12: Appreciating life anew, as the canoe scrapes bottom.

About the series: The planning for this summer series, "Sense of Wonder: Kennebec Land Trust Turns 20," began last winter.
At first, the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel considered other projects. But outdoors writer Travis Barrett and editors at the newspapers decided this was the year to feature lands preserved by the Kennebec Land Trust, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this fall.
Barrett was challenged to help readers hear the bird calls and feel the breezes at some key sites. That's why Barrett strays from journalistic convention in his writing, alternating from third- to first-person and back again.
Along with Barrett, key staffers involved with this project were: photographer Joe Phelan; graphic artist Sharon Wood; Web Manager Ben Sturtevant; and Sports Editor Scott Martin.

Kennebec Land Trust web site