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NEFF Annual Meeting to Be Hosted at
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Featured speaker Char Miller,
Senior Fellow,
Pinchot Institute for
Conservation (click to see
bio)
The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village is home to the country’s last practicing
Shakers, who use the 1,700 acres of fields and forests, now protected by a NEFF
conservation easement, for sustenance and income. Shaker Village is a National
Historic Landmark and contains 17 historic buildings, including the only active
Shaker Meeting House in the nation, all of them protected by a separate
historical preservation easement. The thousands of people who visit the village
annually are treated to renowned Shaker beauty and simplicity of design in a
rural setting.
Working Forests and Climate Change
NEFF has partnered with
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences to develop educational materials on
how working forests can play a role in slowing climate change. The first of a
series of brochures is available here:
Mitigating Climate Change with New England's Forests.
555-Acre Tract Saved from Development
Sun Journal (ME)
OXFORD - A 555-acre trace in Oxford has been saved from future development under
an agreement reached between the landowner and the New England Forestry
Foundation in Massachusetts. "I got older and I wanted it to be in safe hands,"
said the 83-year-old landowner, Patricia Page, in a telephone interview from her
son's home in Lincoln, Mass., where she is staying....
(more)
Creating Wildlife Habitat in Natick
Natick Bulletin & Tab (MA)
NATICK - About two dozen neighbors, representatives of local and regional land
trusts and community organizations endured a morning of rain and chill Feb. 5 to
take part in a walk and discussion at the Mumford Wildlife Forest in South
Natick, hosted by the New England Forestry Foundation. If you’re not familiar
with Mumford, it’s way down Glen Street in South Natick, just this side of the
Dover town line. The foundation’s forest steward, Dave Dimmick, and consulting
forester Gary Gouldrup.....
(more)
National Trust for Historical Preservation Presents Honor
Award To Sabbathday
Lake Shaker Village, Forest, and Farm
‘Tis a Gift to be Simple: Coalition Comes Together to Preserve
World’s Only Surviving Shaker Community
Saint Paul, Minn. (October 4, 2007) – Today, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village,
Forest, and Farm in New Gloucester, Maine is receiving a prestigious National
Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The
project is one of 21 national award winners the National Trust for Historic
Preservation is honoring during its week-long 2007 National Preservation
Conference in the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis....
(more)
Shaker Village Preservation Effort Completed
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Partnership concludes project to protect 1700-acre farm at Sabbathday Lake
New Gloucester, Maine
The Trust for Public Land, New England Forestry Foundation, and other partners
announced today that a two-year effort to preserve the Sabbathday Lake Shaker
Village has reached a successful conclusion. A conservation easement over the
land and a preservation agreement over the historic buildings now guarantee that
the historic farm will never be developed....
(more)
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