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Land trust receives anonymous $50K for mountain

GREENWOOD — The Western Foothills Land Trust took another step toward buying Noyes Mountain after an anonymous donor made a $50,000 contribution and offered to match up to $50,000 more in donations. In August, the land trust revised its purchase and sale agreement with a landowner for Noyes Mountain, a 295-acre parcel in Greenwood overlooking Lake […]

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Land trusts buy 800 acres on Crooked River

Local land trusts have signed a $1.37 million agreement to conserve roughly 800 acres along Crooked River, the largest tributary to Sebago Lake, the drinking water source for the greater Portland area. On Tuesday, CLT Co. President Robert Carlson, 89, of Harrison signed quitclaim deeds with the Western Foothills and Loon Echo land trusts, retaining the land […]