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WINTHROP — Kennebec Land Trust member Stewart Myers donated a 238-acre conservation easement in Vienna and Chesterville in Kennebec and Franklin counties to the Kennebec Land Trust Dec. 19.
The donation, encompassing most of the shoreline of remote Egypt Pond, will forever protect outstanding natural scenery, water quality, working woodlands and farmland, and important wildlife habitat.
Located off of the Egypt Pond, Soper and Allen roads, the trust’s newest conservation easement includes more than 1.5 miles of undeveloped shoreline, mixed woodlands, hayfields, and wetlands with vernal pools. The existing State of Maine public boat launch provides public access to the waters of Egypt Pond, a popular fishing destination.
Myers and his late wife Maureen first came to Egypt Pond in the 1970s, when they purchased land on the north shore. “We looked out from our campsite at a prospect of undisturbed beauty and solitude,” he recalled. “Maureen would be as happy and grateful as I am to know the pond will remain, in all essentials, just as it was then.”
Howard Lake, KLT’s volunteer attorney and long-time member of KLT’s Lands Committee, said “it was such a pleasure to work with Stew and his late wife, Maureen, to conserve this beautiful piece of Maine. The conservation of expansive, undeveloped shoreline and having available boat access makes Egypt Pond a true gem.”
To date the trust has conserved 66 properties, including 32 by conservation easements. Conservation easements are properties where KLT holds the development rights, but the land is under separate ownership.
Since 1988, KLT has worked cooperatively with landowners and communities to conserve the forests, shorelands, fields and wildlife that define central Maine. The trust’s conserved lands encompass more than 6,000 acres in the Kennebec River and Lakes region. For more information, call 207-377-2848 or visit www.tklt.org.
PHOTO: Looking out at Egypt Pond from the shore in the Vienna-Chesterville area. A conservation easement of the land was donated to the Kennebec Land Trust. (Jean-Luc Theriault photo)
