""Cover Story" piece on the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association (" by Phyllis Austin
 

Title

"Cover Story" piece on the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association (SVCA), whi

Authors

Phyllis Austin

Source

Maine Times

Date

11-1-2001

Pages

1, 12-15

Abstract

"Cover Story" piece on the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association (SVCA), which has launched one of Maine's most active and influential land trusts, mounting a campaign to create a 300-foot-wide, no-new-development corridor in the upper estuary of the Sheepscot River. The Sheepscot, with a 228-square-mile watershed that embraces 20 communities in four counties, is one of seven Maine rivers with native Atlantic salmon. The 58-mile-long river also has annual runs of alewives and American eels, and may have remnant populations of American shad and North American oysters, according to Gail Wippelhauser, a scientist with the Department of Marine Resources. The SVCA is the second-oldest land trust in Maine.

Subjects

Land trusts, Sheepscott River

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