Summary of Past L.L.Bean Land Trust Grant Awards

2009 – 2010 Awards: Total Granted - $22,750

$3,500 to Greater Lovell Land Trust for a trailhead and parking facility for the Heald and Bradley Ponds Reserve.
$4,960 to Islesboro Islands Trust to enhance their stewardship capacity and improve trail infrastructure.
$4,800 to Kennebec Estuary Land Trust for creation of the Whiskeag Trail in Bath.
$5,000 to Royal River Conservation Trust to create public access and viewing platforms in the Intervale section of New Gloucester.
$2,000 to Western Foothills Land Trust to support the creation of public access to the Witt Swamp Preserve.
$2,490 to York Land Trust in support of the collaborative Gateway To Maine: Outdoors project.

2008 – 2009 Awards: Total Granted - $22,750

$5,000 to Androscoggin Land Trust for support a public outreach campaign around the LA Trails program.
$3,750 to Blue Hill Heritage Trust for website development and preserve publicity efforts
$4,500 to Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust for new membership and volunteer management systems and the corresponding conversion and training.
$4,500 to Presumpscot Regional Land Trust to support the Trust’s coordination of Phase Two of the Sebago to the Sea Trail initiative.
$5,000 to the Portland North Land Trust Collaborative to support the development of a Portland North Regional Conservation Plan.

2007-2008 Awards: Total Granted $22,750

Mahoosuc Land Trust - $4,000 for a fundraising consultant who will work with the trust on a plan and activities that will lead the Trust towards financial growth and stability.
Woodie Wheaton Land Trust - $2,000 to hire a summer intern who will conduct outreach to landowners on East Grand and neighboring lakes in support of the Trust’s land conservation goals.
York Land Trust - $4,000 to help support the municipal outreach work being undertaken by the MTA2C Coordinator.
Bangor Land Trust - $4,725 in support of the development of collaborative management plans for two well loved and used preserves. The process is intended to engage different user types and build support for the Trust’s ongoing work.
Western Foothills Land Trust - $4,025 to help jump-start the trust’s 150 acre Robert’s Farm Preserve acquisition project in Norway
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust - $4000 to fund the development and distribution of outreach materials in support of the Trust’s strategic lands conservation initiative.

2006-2007 Awards: Total Granted - $22,750

Georges River Land Trust – $4,535 for the development of four preserve management plans that will allow the Trust to manage the sensitive balance between the protection of ecologically significant resources and engagement of the public on conserved lands
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust – $5,000 in support of their Great Pond Mountains Wildlands outreach program helping the Trust to capitalize on the public response to the protection of the Wildlands property.
Holden Land Trust – $5,000 to help this new organization engage the public in support of conservation through the creation of a membership brochure and distribution, a lecture series, and the development of appropriate organizational systems in keeping with the Land Trust Standards and Practices.
Royal River Conservation Trust – $4,215 to in support of the newly merged Trust’s ongoing efforts to strengthen land conservation and stewardship in the communities of the Royal River Watershed.
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association – $4,000 in support of a partnership with Boothbay Region Land Trust and Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance to conduct regional conservation planning and proactive conservation in the Sheepscot watershed.

2005-2006 Awards: Total Granted - $22,750

Coastal Mountains Land Trust – $5,000 for expanding their service area to western Penobscot Bay enabling conservation in an area previously without a local land trust
Downeast Lakes Land Trust – $4,000 to help them initiate and implement actions from an organizational assessment guiding their future land conservation efforts
Kennebec Land Trust – $4,000 for Open Space Planning in Readfield, creating a blueprint for future land conservation to both the land trust and the town government
Lower Kennebec Regional Land Trust – $4,000 to determine how 3 local land trusts can best work towards meeting their collective land conservation goals for the Merrymeeting Bay / Lower Kennebec Estuary region
Quoddy Regional Land Trust – $2,000 for implementing critical actions identified through an organizational assessment process that will enable the organization to meet its land protection and stewardship goals
Woodie Wheaton Land Trust – $3,750 for a land use analysis intended to kick start an almost 5,000-acre collaborative land protection effort well underway

2004-2005 Awards: Total Granted - $12,750

Androscoggin Land Trust – $4,000 for administrative support to build membership and general operating revenues
Francis Small Heritage Trust – $3,050 for cost of a survey within the Sawyer Mountain Highlands
Orono Land Trust – $4,500 for staff support for the Caribou Bog-Penjajawoc Project – a collaborative project with the Bangor Land Trust
York Land Trust on behalf of the Mount Agamenticus Steering Committee – $1,200 for an interpretive boardwalk and kiosk