Islesboro Islands

2012/13 AnnualTrust Report Islesboro Nature Trails • Turtle Head Warren’s Landing This preserve at the northern tip of Islesboro offers dramatic views of This property, located at both east and west Penobscot Bay, the end of Lime Kiln Road, spectacular geological formations, was given to the Town of historical sites and a variety of Islesboro by IIT in 1993. interesting ecological features. • It offers shore access and Access is from Turtle Head Road. views across East Penobscot Shore access is also available. Bay to Castine and Cape Three trails: 1.5 miles total Rosier. Warren’s Landing is • the site of an historic lime kiln and steamboat wharf. Mission Big Tree Beach This is a popular swimming • Enhance the quality of residents’ lives through beach with westerly views across Seal Harbor to Flat Hinkle Preserve the preservation of open space, Island and the Camden Hills. Provides access to a sand and Access is from Main Road. • gravel beach, a picnic area and Educate all residents as to a short loop trail through a fern meadow under mature hardwoods. the value of the islands’ natural ecosystems, and Narrows Preserve Access is from Point Comfort Road. This short loop trail along the One trail: 0.2 miles shoreline of Crow Cove offers • Act as an environmental advocate on behalf of Islesboro scenic salt marsh views and good birdwatching. Access is and the surrounding Penobscot Bay region. from Main Road. One trail plus ashor spur: 0.5 miles Hutchins Island and Marsh • These neighboring preserves offer two spectacular hikes in the Coombs and Cregar Center Parker Coves area. Elaine’s Trail leads Site of the IIT office and • inland around the wetlands and beaver surrounding gardens. The flowages of Hutchins Marsh. The Hutchins property includes a small Island Trail crosses a tidal sandbar, and piece of shore as well. then follows the shoreline of Hutchins Island. Both trails offer excellent wildlife viewing opportunities. Over 139 species of plants and 112 species of birds and • other wildlife are found here. Parking is Broad Point Preserve at the end of Bluff Road. Two trails: 2.5 miles total IIT’s newest preserve, acquired in August 2012, • offers nearly fifty acres of spectacular shorefront Herbert Preserve on Mill Creek, Broad The Herbert Preserve offers two loop trails Cove and Gilkey in the scenic Ryder’s Cove area. The Herbert Harbor. One loop Trail explores the western side of the preserve trail: approximately following the salt marsh edge and returning 1.5 miles through upland forest and steep drainage ravines. The Eastern Trail winds through early-successional forest alond the shore of the Mill Pond providing access to the Day Brigham Memorial Lookout. Access is from Ryder’s Cove Road. Lily Guest Trail Two trails: 1.75 miles total This IIT-managed trail is entirely on private land and offers a beautiful walk along · All trails blue-blazed the shore of Jones Cove. · Maps and rules are posted One trail: 1.5 miles at preserve trailheads

PO Box 182 · 376 West Bay Road · Islesboro, Maine 04848 Layout by Marilyn Smith Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper made with 100% renewable energy. 207-734-6907 (voice) · 207-734-6747 (fax) · [email protected] (email) www.islesboroislandstrust.org Letter from Our President

Enhancing the Quality of Island Life Through Conservation

Like Maine and, indeed, the world, Islesboro has changed over the years. Not so long ago, everyone in the year round community considered the island “theirs” between Labor Day and Memorial Day. This meant walking wherever and whenever, hunting deer, rabbit and duck, gaining access to the shore almost anywhere, picking wild apples wherever, harvesting quarts and quarts of berries on private but uninhabited property, and generally feeling that, like a good tool or favorite shirt, the Island was ours to use and take care of thoughtfully.

As years passed, it became clear that development and a host of demographic, social and cultural changes were altering the landscape with consequent risks that these changes posed to everyone’s enjoyment of Islesboro. In response to these risks, a coalition of local and seasonal residents established IIT to provide access to the shore and the other amenities of open space then slowly eroding. From the beginning, IIT’s land protection actions have been democratic, benefiting all equally, and will do so forever. iller

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Based on these S principles, IIT first purchased Hutchins Island and the southern half of Spruce Island — iconic properties that will forever be part of the Islesboro heritage. IIT conservation continued with the acceptance of easements from property owners who agreed to permanent, non-revocable development restrictions on their land, thus contributing to preservation of the views and rural character of the Island. The acquisition of Big Tree Beach, Turtle Head, other significant properties, and most recently, Broad Point, came next. The IIT properties are ecological preserves that have well maintained trails, which are open to all, and which give everyone the opportunity to enjoy the woodland, marshes and shore from all directions.

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Is there a cost to these essential Island amenities? Yes, but measurable advantages more than offset the costs.

There is considerable research evidence elsewhere that protected open space land helps maintain or elevate property value for nearby land. Open space is a measurable amenity, like good schools, which the market values. Although IIT pays reduced property taxes because of a State law that declares open space preservation is in the public interest, IIT nevertheless paid the Town of Islesboro more than $21,000 in property taxes this year! IIT used virtually no Town services and cost the Town essentially nothing but provided places like Turtle Head and Hutchins Island to walk, hunt, launch boats and do what we all at some time or other wish to do, perhaps NEED to do, in relatively wild, or at least undeveloped, open space. These exceptional places clearly meet the State Legislature’s ambition to allow tax abatements where there is a clear public interest. To enumerate just a few of those public interest factors:

Open spaces do not place any identifiable demand/cost on the schools, the fire department, the ambulance service or town management.

Open space substantially contributes to the health of the aquifer, an important factor in daily residential life because there is no municipal water supply.

Employment opportunities are increased, as there is increased demand for carpenters, plumbers, electricians, clam diggers, lobstermen and others from seasonal residents who are attracted by the natural beauty made possible by conservation. au L

ri s ten Open space supports tourism K and second-home development; encourages more cost-efficient development; allows nature to perform its life-giving, valuable work cleaning the air, offsetting carbon emissions and recharging the aquifer; and establishes a quality of life and aesthetic experience that attracts businesses, teachers, artists, fishermen and many others to cherish Island life.

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In turn, open space generates or supports biological diversity, soil conservation and soil creation, genetic diversity, scenic views and other aesthetic values, agricultural opportunity, forestry, historic lands, purification of air and water, traditional rural character, quality ru s ell K

of life, ambient ancy N healthful living conditions, archaeological, biological, botanical, and scientific opportunity, flood control and climate control.

These benefits are cumulative with those realized by the Town’s ownership of Town Beach and Moseley’s Dock, which do not contribute taxes but add pleasure to Island living. Other Islesboro charitable organizations also contribute greatly to our Islesboro experience but, like the Town, contribute no property taxes.

The Trustees of IIT are committed to maintaining the vision of our founders who, as our mission states, sought to enhance the quality of life for all who are here through the preservation of open space.

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Conservation for the Public Good

Islesboro Islands Trust’s fundamental purpose is conservation. The Microsoft dictionary defines conservation as “protection of valued resources: the preservation, management, and care of natural and cultural resources; protection from change: the keeping or protecting of something from change, loss, or damage.”

To fulfill our purpose, IIT saves undeveloped open space, provides nature-based learning opportunities and defends against threats to the natural resources and services that our natural landscapes provide.

In protecting the ecological integrity of Islesboro and, to the extent that the surrounding region affects Islesboro, Penobscot Bay, IIT also protects the natural resource based economy represented by lobstering, boating, tourism and all the services that contribute to our high quality-of-life.

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M lived and prospered with teve S an ecologically vibrant Penobscot Bay. Yesterday I sat on the edge of the shore at Broad Point looking down Gilkey Harbor and Brackett’s Channel toward the open ocean and distant, unseen horizon, much as people have done for thousands of years. A Kingfisher scolded me for bothering his solitude, the tide rippled clear blue, and sunlight poked fingers of bronze deep into the woods at my back. Nature’s veracity and honor imbued the moment.

But what is “true” Nature? Beside me grew a vigorous barberry plant, considered invasive, never seen on Islesboro before the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century. Clams here are scarce now; mussels eviscerated, probably lost to green or Asian shore crabs. This mid-October day, while gorgeous, is above “normal” and as warm as what used to be a typical August day.

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According to J.B. MacKinnon’s The Once and Future World, when we look closely at the living world, we see how much we cannot see — we experience “the presence of absence.”

“Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same,” MacKinnon writes. The living world has been depleted and transformed.

To know what nature is today, and what it can nebel be in the future, we need K k ac to know what it was J like in the past. Without knowledge of Penobscot Bay’s past ecology, it is impossible to measure the integrity of its ecology today or to plan for its health and welfare tomorrow.

J.P. Farrow reported that early Islesboro settlers found an abundance of cod, halibut and salmon. “The waters abounded in fish and the shores in clams… The salmon were so plenty that the first town poor protested against being served with salmon more than twice a week.” Benjamin Church, in 1692, “seized beaver and moose skins from French and Indians on Acre Island.” Cod schooled so thick in Penobscot Bay at times that a man could almost walk across their backs.

A few thousand years ago before Europeans came to Islesboro, walruses frequented the Gulf of Maine and Native Americans ate swordfish. Even before that, when the mouth of the Penobscot River was near Mount Matinicus (Matinicus Island today), Paleoindians hunted our part of the Maine coast over grasslands, evereux D ev D

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not forested land, with scattered clumps of birch, willow, alder and spruce. Wooly mammoths roamed grassy flatlands around Islesboro and Penobscot Bay, herds of mastodons browsed on the slowly emerging forest, and giant beaver built homes in the vast bogs. Archeological finds indicate that caribou were a primary food at this ancient time. au L The ecological richness of Maine’s coast when Europeans ri s ten

K arrived is legend. Certainly, the abundant flora and fauna here were wildly unlike natural resources in Europe at the time. However, in context, MacKinnon points out that Penobscot Bay in 1492 represented a clash of shifting baselines – Europeans “discovering” what appeared as infinite riches even as the Americas’ original cultures were beginning to understand ecological limits.

From abundance to scarcity The past held tremendous natural abundance. People drew on the plenitude of nature to feed themselves.

Like elephants, elders led ancient cod migrations. Today, there are no old cod to lead; in fact, there are hardly any cod at all and those found are a fraction of the size that once lived full, productive lives in and near Penobscot Bay. Same for haddock, flounder and numerous other fish species that not so long ago swarmed Penobscot Bay.

Islesboro clam-flats were in recent memory so productive that a clam factory overlooking Little Broad Cove bought clams by the barrel and employed several to remove the meat for sale.

Human actions have radically transformed most of the world, but those changes are largely invisible and that history mostly forgotten. each

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we know it today is a fraction of what it was. MacKinnon says, “We live in a 10 Percent World.”

It might be fair to challenge even that assessment. Many fish caught in Maine have consumption advisories due to the amount of mercury accumulated in their tissue mostly from air pollution that drifts across the United States. Human production and release of carbon dioxide, evereux D

known to cause global climate change, reached ev 393.31ppm in the atmosphere in September of this D year, an increase of 77.33 ppm since 1959 (the first full year of instrument data).

All available evidence confirms that Islesboro, Penobscot Bay, North America, the world have changed dramatically. That we are not especially aware of this is sometimes called “change blindness” or shifting baseline syndrome.

“Change,” you may say, “is a natural state;” and you would be correct. However, there is a huge difference between background patterns of change and cataclysmic change. Humans continue to cause a vast ecological cascading effect that is cataclysmic in scale, an order of magnitude greater than the mass extinction of huge reptiles at the end of the Mesozoic era.

Cod Take for example the collapse of the cod fishery in New England. According to Julia Whitty’s book Deep Blue Home, “Overfishing caused the Cod crash [along with haddock, hake, Pollock, cusk, redfish, flounder etc.]. Then Cod prey species, shrimp and small crabs, exploded. The shrimp and small crab food – zooplankton – declined by 45%. Meanwhile, phytoplankton, a food of zooplankton, increased because iller zooplankton was declining! Lastly, nitrate concentrations M teve decreased as blooms of phytoplankton used them up.” S

Fishermen, looking for alternatives, turned to urchins. University of Maine researchers report that urchin harvesting took off as cod declined. As sea urchin numbers dwindled,

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kelp beds, eaten by urchins, proliferated. The kelp forests harbor large Jonah crabs, which feed on immature urchins!

The Gulf of Maine evolved from a marine system dominated by large predatory fish, primarily cod, into something radically different. Researchers call this an “ecosystem flip,” whereby a whole, natural system capsized and, because of reinforcing feedback mechanisms, entered into an entirely different state.

“Dynamic food webs and dynamic climate are colliding. Big fish are ecologically extinct,” said Dr. Robert Steneck, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, quoted in a November 19, 2012 Portland Press Herald report by North Cairn.

Climate Change The scale of change in the world today is unprecedented and sometimes difficult to grasp. We have not just changed one or two isolated places. We have changed the earth, perhaps inadvertently, but none-the-less decisively.

As Rebecca Solnit wrote in “The Age of Inhuman Scale” at TomDispath. com, “The crisis in the natural world is one of awareness as much as any other cause… With nature out of focus, it becomes easier to overlook its evereux D

ev decline… Media do D not give us the scale of the news or a real sense of the proportional importance of one thing compared to another. When events are too huge, cognitive dissonance makes it difficult to assess significance.”

Glacial used to mean slow moving and slow to change. “Nowadays, glaciers are melting rapidly or disappearing entirely, and some – those in Greenland, for example – have

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continued gushing rivers of ice water eating through their base,” Solnit illustrates.

This year’s Mid-coast Regional Planning Commission’s fall meeting is all about sea level rise, in part because the Atlantic is rising 3 to 4 times faster than other oceans. Ocean temperatures, including Penobscot Bay waters, are alarmingly warm. The US Department of Energy au

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will cause more energy ri s ten K breakdowns.”

Over the past 100 years, Maine had the fifth highest temperature change per decade in the nation. So far, in 2013, every month on Islesboro has been warmer than normal. Half of our largest rainfall events of the past century occurred in the past seven years. The September 11 storm of 2013, when hundreds if not thousands of trees were toppled on Islesboro like toy dominoes, must have set records for devastation and it was not even a hurricane!

Humans have altered ecosystems on more than 90 % of the globe – perhaps 100%, given the global extent of climate change. To say that we live in a 10 Percent World at this point is more a measure of the way we experience nature than an accounting of the loss of biological abundance and ecosystem stability. The natural world as we experience it today is a shadow and an echo of its former self.

MacKinnon explains, “The reason we have a new climate is because we have made ourselves a new world. Awareness of nature is not primarily a sentimental or spiritual practice, but a profoundly realistic one – a way of binding ourselves to the simple truth that human beings depend on ecological systems for survival…. Pay attention, au and we will value nature more.” L ri s ten K

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When we look closely, we see that we are part of nature, not separate from the myriad forces and species around us. IIT can help people find again their place in the complex reservoir of associations that is our ecology, our world.

MacKinnon again, “Nature may not be what it was, no, but it isn’t simply gone. It’s waiting.” Nature is waiting evereux

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The Opportunity As much as Islesboro and Penobscot Bay have changed, we have the opportunity to restore the native ecology, one property and one person at a time. Not only are IIT’s preserves aesthetically pleasing and fun, they are repositories of biodiversity and locations in which we reconnect with the ecology of our island community. These IIT properties allow us to engage with the place where we live in a fundamentally more integrated manner than is usually the case.

Conservation, then, is about protecting places, species and valuable natural resources and preventing human activity from wiping them out. IIT uses the past as a guide to help us determine how we might make a place wilder again – to bring back the abundance, and the potential nature has to be abundant, and to be diverse. A wilder, more abundant environment is a more productive and therefore a more economically evereux advantageous environment, too. D ev D The intention is not to live in the past but to end the war of the present against the past, to give nature fuller expression in a world in which it is muffled.

We find ourselves at a fork and must choose a path. One direction leads to apocalypse, the other to embedding once more within our natural world – protecting land, learning from the world around us, inspiring ecological ethics.

-10- Grantors of Conservation Easements 1986 – 2013

Taz and Sue Stafford 2012 The Mary and Pyam Williams Family 2012 Hodding Carter III & Patricia Derian 2011 Dudley H. Ladd Ethan & Haven Ladd 2011 2011 Dr. & Mrs. Robert McNeil 2011 The Phyllis Frame Family 2008 Denis Moonan & Pamela MacBrayne Mr. & Mrs. Neil Lamb 2007 2007 Gary & Greg Yeaton Sue Hatch & Tom Tutor 2007 Missy Hatch & Vern Spinosa 2007 Lawrence Hoder & Harriett Bering Members of IIT 2007 “The Field” Turtle Head Cove LLC 2006 2004 Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Williams Rev. & Mrs. Ned Sunderland Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pike 2001 2002 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Burgess Mr. & Mrs. Robert Berg 1998 2000 Ginny & Lynn Hall The Hawker Trust 1996 1996 Jack & Sue Gardner Mr. & Mrs. George Post 1995 1993 Mildred Stanley Capt. & Mrs. V.V. Utgoff 1993 1992 Mr. & Mrs. Frank West Caroline (Neenie) Pierce Doyle 1990 1989 Mr. & Mrs. James Rowan Veronica Pendleton 1989 1989 Anne Owsley Mary Ann & Chuck Verrill 1988 1987 Lang & Valerie Smith 1986

-11- Schedule of Receipts and Disbursements For the Years Ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013

Receipts and PLEDGES June 30, 2012 June 30, 2013 Contributions: General Operations $ 192,763 $243,285 LPG Legal and Consulting 17,000 444,578 Broad Point – Contributions 80,000 15,000 Broad Point – Pledges 934,388 — Hinkle Property 10,000 — Total Contributions $1,234,151 $702,863 Other Income 1,498 874 Total Receipts $1,235,650 $703,737 Disbursements General Operations Salaries, Health Insurance and Taxes $137,226 $132,257 Accounting and Bookkeeping 6,642 8,920 Island Explorations & Expeditions 4,376 2,503 Insurance 6,305 8,374 Legal Expenses 6,031 5,488 Maintenance 5,192 4,197 Miscellaneous 409 167 Office 7,308 10,678 Preserve Stewardship 1,789 2,228 Printing 4,622 3,392 Property Taxes 17,593 24,438 Subscriptions, Dues and Donations 1,700 1,750 Travel 2,079 2,302 Utilities 5,562 5,880 Total Operating Expenses $206,834 $212,574 Special Projects and Capital Expenses Broad Point Acquisition and Expenses — $1,005,747 LPG Legal and Consulting 17,000 406,245 Hinkle Property 55,000 11,000 Frame Easement 7,078 7,078 Total Expenses – Special and Capital $79,078 $1,430,070 Total Disbursements $285,912 $1,642,644 Excess of Receipts over Disbursements $949,738 ($938,907)

-12- Balance Sheet Summary For the Years Ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013

ASSETS June 30, 2012 June 30, 2013 Current Assets Operating Accounts $83,176 $133,672 Broad Point Account 80,000 77,000 LPG Account — 38,699 Easement Stewardship Fund 20,316 18,324 Preserve Stewardship Fund 5,485 5,489 Total Current Assets $188,977 $273,184

Equipment Net of Depreciation 6,072 5,732 Pledges Receivable – General Fund 10,000 — Pledges Receivable – Broad Point 934,388 182,734

Land, Building & Easements Spruce Island Preserve 125,281 125,281 Hutchins Island Preserve 99,508 99,508 Big Tree Beach 29,965 29,965 Turtle Head Preserve 630,000 630,000 Hutchins Marsh Preserve 75,904 75,904 Herbert Preserve 180,880 180,880 Cregar Center 164,881 164,881 Batchelor Preserve 85,455 85,455 The Narrows Preserve 90,479 90,479 Hinkle Preserve 250,000 250,000 Broad Point Preserve — 1,000,000 Bluff – Easement 125,017 125,017 Speed – Easement 195,107 195,107 Frame – Easement 85,000 85,000 Total Land, Building & Easements 2,137,477 3,137,477 Total Assets $3,276,914 $3,599,127

LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Accrued Payroll $ 4,280 $ 3,933 Accounts Payable 1,876 1,528 Hinkle Property Note 52,500 11,000 Frame Property Note 7,078 7,078 Broad Point Bridge Loan — 275,000 T otal Current Liabilities $65,734 $298,539 Long Term Liabilities Hinkle Property Note — 33,000 Frame Property Note 35,389 27,726 T otal Long Term Liabilities 35,389 60,726 Total Liabilities $101,123 $359,265 Total Equity $3,175,791 $3,239,865

Total Liabilities and Equity $3,276,914 $3,599,127

-13- Islesboro Islands Trust Membership Contribution Year 2012—2013 (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013)

American Eagle Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Stafford, III The Allen Family The Dunn Family Christopher D. and Kate Allen Mr. Landon Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Allen Mr. & Mrs. E. Massie Valentine Carla and Hans Brigham Mrs. Catherine V. Brigham Mr. Nicholas Brountas & Ms. Marlane Melican Mrs. Lucy A. Burr Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust Mr. Jonathan Z. Cohen & Ms. Julia Pershan Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Cohen The Collins Family Mr. Darrell Crate Mr. Richard Gilder & Ms. Lois Chiles Mr. & Mrs. Roger J. Heinen, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bayard E. Hollins au

– The Elizabeth Foundation L Mr. & Mrs. James R. Houghton ri s ten Mr. & Mrs. Gladstone Jones, III K Mr. Paul D. Kazilionis Dr. & Mrs. Robert G. McNeil Maine Osprey Mrs. Betsy S. Michel Mrs. Linda Cabot Mr. Stephen P. Reynolds & Ms. Susan Wolf Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Campbell Ms. Mary Caulkins & Mr. Karl Kister Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gill, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Devens H. Hamlen Mr. & Mrs. Michael MacDougall Maine Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Frederick S. Moseley, III Mostyn Foundation Mr. Arthur B. Choate, President Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Senior Mr. & Mrs. David R. Weaver Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wenner

Penobscot Heron Caulkins Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Claflin Mr. & Mrs. Harden L. Crawford, III Dr. & Mrs. William L. Elkins The Elkins Family Fund Jockey Hollow Foundation Mr. & Mrs. A. Lee Fentress Mr. Thomas Gohagan Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund Helen Francis Ladd Family Fund

iller of the Triangle Community Foundation M Ms. Anita G. Herrick teve S

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Mr. James D. Houghton & Ms. Constance Coburn Ms. Nina B. Houghton & Mr. Kent George, Jr. Mr. William S. Janes Mr. John Kauer & Ms. Barbara Talamo Mr. & Mrs. Haven Ladd Mr. Dudley H. Ladd Maine Initiatives Mr. James J. Mallon Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dana G. Mead Mr. L. Taylor Mudge Stephen & Candace Phillips Point Harbor Fund Of Maine Community Foundation Mr. George B. Post Robert & Marietta Ramsdell Mr. & Mrs. Stuart W. Ray Mr. & Mrs. J. Woodward Redmond Mr. & Mrs. Russell S. Reynolds, Jr. Dr. Lars C. Richardson

iller Dr. & Mrs. Alan D. Schreiber

M Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Suppes teve

S Mrs. Polly Weintz Sanna – The Harbor Lights Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Kaminski (in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz) Mr. & Mrs. Jack G. Knebel Ms. C. Florence Winters Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Lawrence Ms. Claire Winters Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Ledbetter Mr. & Mrs. Nigel S. MacEwan Red Oak Cary Slocum and Glenn Montgomery Mr. George Appell Mr. & Mrs. George Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds Burgund Mrs. Elizabeth Weintz Cerf Ms. Nina Train Choa – The Harbor Lights Foundation Mr. Henry Conklin & Ms. Carol Pierson Mr. Mark Umbach & Mr. Chris Becker Mr. & Mrs. Charles O. Verrill, Jr. Islesboro Eider Mr. & Mrs. Adam Bird Mr. & Mrs. John C. Bowlin Mr. Jonathan Bush Mrs. Maud Cabot Mr. & Mrs. Antelo Devereux, Jr. Ms. Elaine W. Fiske & Mr. Philip L. Ladd G. Peabody & Rose Gardner Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gillespie Mr. & Mrs. Archibald L. Gillies Mr. Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, IV & Ms. Mallory Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Reid D. Hausmann au Ms. Ann B. Hersey L

Mr. Robert Holmgren & Ms. Anita Spertus ri s ten K

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Ms. Fiona M. Drummond Mr. J. Fred Weintz, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Phillip T. George – The Harbor Lights Foundation Mr. James M. Hamlen (in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz) Ms. Margery M. Hamlen & Mr. Joseph Hammer Dr. Eric C. Weintz Ms. Marjory W. Hardwick – The Harbor Lights Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Pegram Harrison Dr. Mary White Mr. & Mrs. Abner Kingman Mr. Sidney E. Lazard White Pine Mrs. Roxanne Leighton Ms. Madelaine L. Alexander & Mr. Jon Kerr Ms. Nancy L. Nellis Mr. Alexander Babbidge Mr. Martin Phillips & Ms. Anmiryam Budner Mr. & Mrs. Martin Badoian Mr. & Mrs. Scott Reeves Mr. Philip Behr & Ms. Elisabeth Rowan Dr. & Mrs. William R. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. John E. Belmonte Dr. & Mrs. William Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. John G. Brisson, II Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Rothschild Mr. Hodding Carter III & Ms. Patricia Derian Mr. Morris Cheston Mr. Donald P. Etchison Ms. Maria Christina Forney Mr. & Mrs. Frederick M. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. John L. Gardner Mr. John Lanier & Ms. Jane Garvey Ms. Caroline A. Gillespie Nathaniel & Jessica Goldblatt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Hathaway Mr. & Mrs. John Higginson Mr. & Mrs. Mark Keating Ms. Beth Lamont Ms. Jeannie Lucas & Mr. Jim Dux Mrs. Andrea Lutz Mr. & Mrs. James Meister Drs. J. Andrew & Kelly Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Rooney Mrs. Jeanette Sanger Ms. Patricia Scarpelli Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Slater Mr. & Mrs. Fredrick Stahl Mr. & Mrs. Christian Stolte M. David & Adena Testa Ms. Alix T. Thorne ohoe

K Ms. Lisa Train & Mr. Clive Pinnington lana Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Warren, Jr. E Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr. Mr. Richard Youngman & Ms. Vanessa Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rowland Ms. Mary A. Zimmerman Mr. Marc V. Schnur Dr. & Mrs. Eric K. Zitzmann Mr. Charles J. Serns David & Betsy Sessions Timber Spruce Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Stevens Ms. Anne Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Train Mr. Richard Atlee

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Dark Harbor Boat Yard Corp. Ms. Patricia Dirlam Mr. & Mrs. Larry Dornisch Mr. & Mrs. Jon Drezner Ms. Elin Elisofon Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott Mr. Paul Emmi Mrs. Maureen Fischer Mr. & Mrs. John S. Foster Mrs. Phyllis Frame Dr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Leon J. Ghougasian

erric k Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Girvin H The Honorable Caroline D. Glassman nita

A Dr. Martin J. Gliserman & Ms. Marilyn Rye Mrs. Irene Emery Goodale Ms. Corinne Axelrod Mr. Kenneth Greene Ms. Helen Barrett Mr. Richard Grisaru & Ms. Gitta Robinson Mrs. May P. Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Harleston J. Hall, Jr. Mr. Allen H. Barton Ms. Kathryn Hall Mr. John C. Bayles Ms. Lynn Hamlen Mr. & Mrs. Wirt A. Beard, Jr. Ms. Gillian Hannum Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Beck Ms. M. Melissa Hatch & Mr. Vernon Spinosa Mr. David Beck Andrea Heap & J. Gavin Watson Mr. David Berg Mr. Thomas L. Hinkle Dr. Harriet Bering & Dr. Larry Hoder Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Hobart Mr. Edgar Bering IV Mr. & Mrs. Neil P. Hoffmann Mr. David Bethune Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Hollins IV Mr. & Mrs. Frederick M. Bishop Mr. Michael Horn & Ms. Patricia Beliveau Mr. William Boardman & Ms. Lisa Satchfield Dr. Keith Hutchison Rev. David W. Boulton Islesboro Island News Ms. Joanne Boynton Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Inc. Philip & Marina Braswell Ms. Johnna B. Brazier David & Elizabeth Brock Mr. & Mrs. Clayton S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Buckley Mr. & Mrs. Roger Burke Paul & Julie Butler Lindsey and Andrew Cabot Mr. & Mrs. Eric Cambra Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Carmichel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Carpenter

Rev. & Mrs. Norman J. Catir, Jr. au L Mr. Page C. Clason ri s ten

Ms. Phyllis Coelho K Mr. & Mrs. Jack Coffin Ms. Nancy Crooker & Mr. George Siscoe Fredericka & Charles Jenner Mr. & Mrs. Michael Cullen Ms. Beverley Jones Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Cullen Mrs. Diane Temple Keehner Mr. & Mrs. John B. Custer Mr. Charlie Kelley

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Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Kerr Northeast Resource Recovery Association Mr. & Mrs. Jay Kislak Mr. & Mrs. Patrick O’Bannon Mr. Erwin M. Koeritz Ms. Sandra Oliver Mrs. Edie Konesni Whitney & Tony Oppersdorf Mr. Robert Kramer Mrs. Lilias Outerbridge Drs. Frederick T. Kraus & Gayle P.W. Jackson Ms. Parrino & Mr. Crampton Ms. Alison Wood & Ms. Nancy Krusell Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Pasakarnis Mr. John R. Lacey Mr. Charles W. Pendleton Mr. Peter Lacoux & Ms. Mai Watts Ms. Carol Andrea Pendleton Mr. Stanley Pendleton & Ms. Diana Roberts Mr. & Mrs. David Petzel Mr. Roy Pfeil & Ms. Juliana Post Mr. George Evans & Ms. Shar Piper Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Post Mr. & Mrs. Joel S. Post Ms. Diana Post Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Putnam Mrs. Yvette Reid Ms. Virginia Reidy & Mr. Steve Larmore Ms. Anne Renarde & Mr. Dan Boxer Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Ruch, Jr.

au Mr. & Mrs. John R. Sale L Ms. Jane Sanford ri s ten Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Sargent K Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Sauter Mr. & Mrs. Schlager Ms. Susan Lauchlan Ms. Susan Schnur Mr. & Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Mrs. Katharine Schwarzenbach Ms. Jennifer Lawson & Mr. Larry Ely Adam & Lorna Seamans Ms. Sasha Lazard Rev. & Mrs. Lyndon Shakespeare William Lehr and Bouzha Cookman Dr. & Mrs. Huntington Sheldon Ms. Joan Lillie Mr. Paul Sheridan Ms. Constance Logan & Mr. Mark Kremen Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Slawson Timothy & Barbara Logan Mr. & Mrs. David Speed Ms. Christy Love-Sadron Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Low Mr. Rod Luhn Mr. & Mrs. David G. Mahan Mr. Peter D. Matthews Ms. Joanne McNally Mrs. Ellen S. McNamara Dr. & Mrs. William C. Meade Mr. & Mrs. Ved Mehta Mr. James Miller & Ms. Mollie Noyes Mr. & Mrs. Charles Miller Mr. Ranlet Miner, Jr. Holly Mitchell & Will Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Nathanson evereux D ev D

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Mrs. Mary E. Steele In-Kind Contributions Ms. Wiltrut Thomas Mr. & Mrs Martin Badoian Mr. Sam Thompson Mr. Allen H Barton Mr. & Mrs. Harry P. Tower Mr. Edgar Bering Mrs. Priscilla B. Tully Ms. Margery Hamlen & Mr. Joseph Hammer Ms. Sarah Tully Mr. & Mrs. George Hopkins Ms. Ellen Tully Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. Smith Ms. Katherine P. Tuttle Mr. Christian and Mrs. Jacqueline Stoltz Ms. Jane Vickery Ms. Gladys Thomas Mr. William Warren & Ms. Jean Anderson Mr. William S Warren and Ms Jean C. Anderson Ms. Anne Warren Mrs. Janet M. Webb Grants Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Welldon Ansley Bell Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Ms. Paula Welldon Learning Center Scholarship Fund of Ms. Patricia E. West the Maine Community Foundation Rev. E. Joanne Whitehead & Ms. Lois Hill Marji Greenhut Mr. & Mrs. Henry Wilder – Maine Initiatives Mr. & Mrs. Larry Wonson Peter Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Zelonka – Maine Community Foundation

2013 Islesboro Islands Trust Conservation Awards Presented to deserving students from the Islesboro Central School who best exemplify the goals and purpose of Islesboro Islands Trust. The educators at Islesboro Central School who know them best nominate and select the students who receive these awards. Elementary School All students in Grades 3 and 4 Aisling Morse, Betsy Babbidge, Erin Durkee, James Ramsey, Jay Legere, Kaden Pendleton, Kamren Start, Liberty Gallant, Mitiku Yeatts, Sophie Lau and Thomas Randlett. Middle School Cameron Anderson High School Eli Legere

Ansley Bell Memorial Scholarship to Tanglewood This memorial scholarship is supported by a dedicated fund at the Maine Community Foundation, and locally administered by Islesboro Islands Trust.

Eoin Kehoe and Nathaniel Eldridge

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Founders Lily Guest Edward Lawrence Anne Owsley Liberty Redmond Lydia Rolerson

Board of Trustees Charles Verrill, President Christopher Allen, Vice President Langhorne Smith, Treasurer James Mitchell, Secretary Sara Babbidge Andrew Coombs Devens Hamlen Julia Pershan Beverley Rogers Johan Brigham Darrell Crate Heather Knight Diana Roberts Sue Stafford Thomas L. Tutor Advisory Council Mary Beth Blake Archibald Gillies Gladstone Jones, III Nigel MacEwan Elisabeth Rowan Maxwell Caulkins Margery Hamlen Jon Kerr Deborah McNeil Philip Seymour Jonathan Cohen Pegram Harrison Sandra Kramer Stephen Phillips Landon Thomas Todd Congdon Jewell Hausmann Nancy Krusell Shar Piper Frances Train Shey Conover James D. Houghton Edward Lawrence Julie Reidy Daniel Tutor Thomas Gill, Jr. Laura Houle Robert Luxembourg William Rosenberg Virginia Valentine

Staff and Contractors Stephen Miller, Executive Director Kangas & Kangas, Certified Public Accountant Elana Kehoe, Administrative Specialist Fred Stocking, Legal Counsel Kristen Kelley Lau, Island Explorations Counselor Madeline Tomlin Associates, Bookkeeping Heather Sinclair, Island Expeditions Leader Jairus Miller, Trail Maintenance & Mowing Bill Schoppe, Trail Maintenance Committees

Education, Communications Phenology Team and Special Events Helen Barrett Sue Stafford Lisa Beck, Chair Shar Piper Katie Heckel Taz Stafford Sara Babbidge Julie Reidy Nancy Krusell Hanna Wood-Krusell Margery Hamlen Beverley Rogers Andrew Kahrl Heather Knight Elisabeth Rowan Easement Stewardship Trail Maintenance Sue Stafford, Chair Jon Kauer & Barbara Talamo Bruce Claflin Daniel Tutor Linda & Martin Badoian Laurie & Mark Keating John & Shana Izaijs Jesse Tutor Greg & Lisa Beck Michael & Kathy Kerr Jairus Miller Thomas L. Tutor David Brock & Family Haven & Molly Ladd Todd & Robyn Anne Molly McNamara Fundraising and Membership Congdon Jairus Miller Patty & Jeff Crawford Holly Mitchell & Family Christopher Allen, Chair Beverley Rogers Alice Fay Kim & Taylor Ongaro Archibald Gillies William Rosenberg Tom & Jody Gill Craig Olson & Family Gladstone Jones, III Langhorne Smith Linda Graf Julia Pershan Julia Pershan Virginia Valentine David & Harriett Anne Renarde Land Conservation Hathaway Katie Schwartzenbach Jewell Hausmann Lang & Marilyn Smith Devens Hamlen, Chair Robert McNeil Nina Herrick Walter Stafford Christopher Allen Jim Mitchell Owen & Betha Howell Allie Wood & Nancy Krusell Darrell Crate Julie Reidy and Family and Family Archibald Gilles Charles Verrill Glad & Amanda Jones Kay Wood Edward Lawrence Nominating Cregar Center Sue Stafford, Chair Stephen Miller Evan Schmidt, Chair Stephen Miller Helen Barrett Johan Brigham

-20- Islesboro Nature Trails • Turtle Head Warren’s Landing This preserve at the northern tip of Islesboro offers dramatic views of This property, located at both east and west Penobscot Bay, the end of Lime Kiln Road, spectacular geological formations, was given to the Town of historical sites and a variety of Islesboro by IIT in 1993. interesting ecological features. • It offers shore access and Access is from Turtle Head Road. views across East Penobscot Shore access is also available. Bay to Castine and Cape Three trails: 1.5 miles total Rosier. Warren’s Landing is • the site of an historic lime kiln and steamboat wharf. Mission Big Tree Beach This is a popular swimming • Enhance the quality of residents’ lives through beach with westerly views across Seal Harbor to Flat Hinkle Preserve the preservation of open space, Island and the Camden Hills. Provides access to a sand and Access is from Main Road. • gravel beach, a picnic area and Educate all residents as to a short loop trail through a fern meadow under mature hardwoods. the value of the islands’ natural ecosystems, and Narrows Preserve Access is from Point Comfort Road. This short loop trail along the One trail: 0.2 miles shoreline of Crow Cove offers • Act as an environmental advocate on behalf of Islesboro scenic salt marsh views and good birdwatching. Access is and the surrounding Penobscot Bay region. from Main Road. One trail plus ashor spur: 0.5 miles Hutchins Island and Marsh • These neighboring preserves offer two spectacular hikes in the Coombs and Cregar Center Parker Coves area. Elaine’s Trail leads Site of the IIT office and • inland around the wetlands and beaver surrounding gardens. The flowages of Hutchins Marsh. The Hutchins property includes a small Island Trail crosses a tidal sandbar, and piece of shore as well. then follows the shoreline of Hutchins Island. Both trails offer excellent wildlife viewing opportunities. Over 139 species of plants and 112 species of birds and • other wildlife are found here. Parking is Broad Point Preserve at the end of Bluff Road. Two trails: 2.5 miles total IIT’s newest preserve, acquired in August 2012, • offers nearly fifty acres of spectacular shorefront Herbert Preserve on Mill Creek, Broad The Herbert Preserve offers two loop trails Cove and Gilkey in the scenic Ryder’s Cove area. The Herbert Harbor. One loop Trail explores the western side of the preserve trail: approximately following the salt marsh edge and returning 1.5 miles through upland forest and steep drainage ravines. The Eastern Trail winds through early-successional forest alond the shore of the Mill Pond providing access to the Day Brigham Memorial Lookout. Access is from Ryder’s Cove Road. Lily Guest Trail Two trails: 1.75 miles total This IIT-managed trail is entirely on private land and offers a beautiful walk along · All trails blue-blazed the shore of Jones Cove. · Maps and rules are posted One trail: 1.5 miles at preserve trailheads

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