Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance
Meeting of the trails
Sheepscot river
Birding at Bog Brook Marsh
Contact Information
Main Contact
- Buck O'Herin, Executive Director
- 265 Halldale Road
- Montville, ME 04941
- Phone: 589-4311
- Email: buckoherin@fairpoint.net
- Glenn Ritch, President
- RR 1, Box 2306
- Freedom, ME 04941
- Phone: 342-4906
- Email: glennt@fairpoint.net
Alternate Contact
MLTN Member
Mission Statement
SWLA is committed to achieving the permanent protection and restoration of the lands and waters and their indigenous species within the upper Sheepscot River watershed essential to the ecological health of the region. SWLA shall accomplish that goal through conservation easements; land acquisition; public environmental advocacy and education; the support of sound scientific research; and management plans, insuring that the health, activity, and evolution of the natural world take precedence.
Region
The Sheepscot River headwaters region
Quick Facts
- Number of Staff: 1
- Membership: 130
- Annual Meeting: August
- Newsletter: Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance Newsletter
- Acres owned: 534
- Number of Parcels: 11
- Acres under Conservation Easement: 285
- Number of Parcels: 2
- Founded: 1991
- Prevents critical wetlands from being developed
- Creates river buffers
- Hosts natural history programs, hiking and canoeing trips
- Builds and maintains trails. (shares an 18-mile network with GRLT)
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