Introduction

Scarborough Land Conservation Trust projects are primarily related to land stewardship: property monitoring, construction and maintenance of trails, construction of trail bridges, benches, signs and kiosks. Volunteers and community groups such as the Boy Scouts, Kiwanis International and Americorps have been instrumental to the success of these activities. These projects are described in our "Lands" and "Trails" pages.

Other projects include research and writing about land conservation. When reports documenting the activities and interests of the Land Trust become available we will be posting them here:

Economics of Land Conservation - A Study of Scarborough, Maine by Jeremy Wintersteen

This study, developed as a class paper for a course at Boston University, documents the economic importance of open space protection.

Scarborough, Maine (formerly "Owascoag", Land of Much Grass) by Bruce Lincoln

This brief history of Scarborough examines the importance of its natural resources.