KITTERY LAND TRUST PROPERTIES

The property is approximately 19.46 acres in size and was donated by Charles S. Lynch on December 17, 1999. It is comprised of 2 parcels, Parcel A of 10.17 acres and Parcel B - adjacent to Bartlett Road - of 9.29 acres. Parcel A is mostly wooded swamp. Parcel B consists of two distinct wetlands joined by a narrow waterway and surrounded by a thin strip of upland woods. Access to the property is through a right-of-way on Lynch Lane.


In November 2006, employees from Timberland's Kittery store helped KLT members with trail work in the Lynch property. In addition to improving two existing trails, the crew worked to build several bridges over streams and wet places on the trail, to avoid further environmental damage.






















Bill Paarlberg, chair of the Stewardship Committee, leads KLT members Neil Jorgensen and Steve Hall and Mark Buzzell, operations manager of the Timberland Kittery store, as they work on constructing a new bridge over a stream on the Lynch property



A baseline survey of the Lynch property was done in 2004 by Neil Jorgensen. Among the information discovered during the survey were examples of geological changes over time. The picture below shows one such example.

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Close-up of basalt showing some of the larger gas bubble holes. Faint glacial scratches (parallel to the pencil, but unclear in the photograph) show the direction of ice movement across the rock.


The Kittery Land Trust has recently developed a management plan for this property. The goal of the management plan is to protect wetlands and preserve the ecology of the property while allowing appropriate public access. The Kittery Land Trust intends to manage the Lynch property and contiguous KLT protected properties as a single nature preserve.


High points of the newly developed management plan may be found here.