Our Stewardship Mission

The Stewardship Program works with land trusts, conservation commissions, and other coastal decision-makers to support community efforts to conserve a mosaic of natural resources throughout southern Maine. The program: 1) facilitates collaborations for regional conservation planning, 2) provides access to natural resource information, 3) offers GIS mapping services, 4) promotes training opportunities, and 5) provides outreach and communications services.

Watershed Conservation Strategies

This series of reports helps inform and guide communities striving to maintain and improve water quality and river health. The following overviews in Adobe PDF format summarize the complete reports. For copies of full reports, please contact tsmith@wellsnerr.org.

Cape Neddick River (805 kb)
Merriland River - Branch Brook - Little River (410 kb)
Nonesuch River (598 kb)
Ogunquit River (784 kb)
Spruce Creek (387 kb)
Webhannet River (424 kb)
York River (368 kb)

Watershed Management Plans

These reports help direct community efforts to maintain and improve water quality and river health. These are large files in Adobe PDF format. We recommend you save the PDF to open it locally, rather than opening it in your browser. To obtain hard copies, please contact tsmith@wellsnerr.org.

Merriland River - Branch Brook - Little River (8 MB: large file)

Watershed Conservation Updates

February 1, 2005
March 23, 2004
January 28, 2004
August 6, 2003
June 12, 2003
May 6, 2003
April 18, 2003
March 14, 2003

Coastal Mosaic Project Updates

March 28, 2002
October 18, 2001
August 23, 2001
June 1, 2001
March 29, 2001
February 22, 2001
February 2, 2001
December 8, 2000
October 5, 2000

Articles in the York County Coast Star

September 1999: Community tools for managing sprawl
July 28, 1999: Water picks up pollutants, naturally
June 30, 1999: Working together for wildlife
April 28, 1999: Mount A is southern Maine treasure
March 10, 1999: Conservation groups form Coastal Mosaic Project

Contact Information

Write to the Stewardship Program at
Wells Reserve
342 Laudholm Farm Road
Wells ME 04090

Coordinator:
Tin Smith (207) 646-1555 ext 119; tsmith@wellsnerr.org.

Assistant:
Heather True (207) 646-1555 ext 125; htrue@wellsnerr.org.

GIS and Resource Specialist:
Matthew McBride (207) 646-1555 ext 120; mmcbride@wellsnerr.org.