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LEEDS – The public is invited to the Kennebec Land Trust’s 360-acre Curtis Homestead Conservation Area to learn about sustainable forestry, land conservation, wildlife and local history at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28.
The annual Curtis Forestry Day provides opportunities for families to learn about Maine’s forestry heritage and see logging equipment up close and in action. Leeds-based logger Nat Bell will harvest trees and operate a portable sawmill.
“It’s one of our favorite programs of the year,” said Kirsten Brewer, the land trust’s director of membership and programs. “There’s something for everyone in the family, whether that’s seeing professional equipment up close and personal, or just being in the Maine woods on a fall day.”
This is the ninth year that land trust has offered a sustainable forest-management program at the Curtis Homestead. The classes are supported by the Androscoggin County USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Maine Forest Service, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Kennebec Woodland Partnership.
The Curtis Homestead was settled in the early 1800s and remained in the Curtis family until the year 2000, when former Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis and his sister, Rebecca Curtis Meredith, donated their family’s 360 acres to the Kennebec Land Trust. The homestead has over three miles of trails and plays host to school and outdoor programs from forestry and apple tree pruning to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
For more information visit www.tklt.org or call 207-377-2848.
