Kittery Land Trust - 2006 Clambake

Seventh Annual KLT Clambake
September 9, 2007

This year's clambake included the KLT annual meeting and marked the 20th anniversary of a group of local people taking individual steps to preserve the natural features that define their quality of life. KLT President Melissa Paly offered the following facts:

KLT is one of 1600 non profit land trusts in the US.

Land Trusts have been extraordinarily successful – they have protected more than 37 million acres in the US – the amount of land conserved has doubled in the last five years.

Maine has conserved more than 1.7 million acres, more land than any other state in the US except California, a staggering fact given the difference in the sizes of the two states.

Here in our own backyard, the numbers are also impressive. The regional conservation coalition that KLT has been part of these past 4 years, the MtA2C Initiative, celebrated an incredible success this past May – together we raised more than $17 million, half in land and half in local, corporate, state and federal dollars, to conserve 33 different properties totaling almost 1700 acres. This brings the total amount of land conserved in the MtA2C focus area to almost 12,000 acres – the largest amount of protected coastal land between the Pine Barrens of NJ and Acadia National Park.

Featured Speaker

The Clambake featured guest speaker Martha Petersen, principal, Petersen Design of Kittery, Maine. Martha discussed "Gardening Green in Your Own Backyard" citing various practices to ensure sustainable gardening. In case we had forgotten, she reviewed many of our local invasives showing actual samples she brought with her.

Friend of Kittery Conservation Award

Grace Frawley raised 6 kids and a lot of animals at her home near the end of Norton Road, a lovely home surrounded by acres of classic New England woodlands. Laced with old stone walls and 100 year old hardwoods, the land was farmed for generations that preceeded her. Like many Mainers, Grace has had a life-long fascination with the natural world, and the land around her home. She glows with excitement when describing the cow slips, jack in the pulpits, lady slippers and blue fringed gentians in her woods. And also like many Mainers, she realized that these woods were more than a place for future houses – they provided home for animals, and place to walk and connect with nature.

In 1999 Grace donated 52 acres to KLT so that it would remain forever wild and accessible for people to enjoy. Grace has said that “everyone has a part to play in protecting Kittery’s open spaces”. Mrs Frawley has played her part magnificently, and for that we wish to award her the third annual “FRIEND OF KITTERY CONSERVATION AWARD”.

Grace Frawley (center),recipient of the Friend of Kittery Conservation Award, is surrounded by her six adult children.

Alice and KLT Treasurer Dick Emery are part of the team that makes the Clambake possible.

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Don and Merry Craig enjoy the sun on a perfect early fall day.

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Former Board member Neil Jorgensen enjoys a moment with Ellen Denny.

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KLT Board Secretary Vance Morgan and Anne Morgan greet Steve Delaney, KLT member and roving photographer.

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