Our Mission...

COLLABORATING FOR THE FUTURE

We work with our neighbors, towns, and like-minded organizations to protect and preserve the ecosystems of the Kezar Lake, Kezar River, and Cold River watersheds for the benefit and enjoyment of the natural and human community today and as a legacy for the future.

The Greater Lovell Land Trust is a donor-supported organization.

Please help sustain our work, our communities, and the region’s natural beauty!


Mud Season is Back!

Please avoid these preserves and parking lots through the end of mud season:

  • Both Five Kezar Ponds lots

  • Heald and Bradley Lots 1 and 5

  • Chip Stockford

  • Long Meadow Brook 

  • Segur East 

  • Sabattus 

  • Kezar Corridor Lands


GLLT supports MESA for another school year!

This year, the Maine Environmental Science Academy (MESA) is heading out into the woods with GLLT once again, this time to learn how geology and other abiotic factors influence and create the landscape we live in. About forty 6th through 8th graders are hiking up mountains, digging through mines, and braving the elements every Thursday with GLLT staff and volunteers. MESA emphasizes the value in collaboration, leadership, and problem solving as well as giving students the opportunity to make strong bonds with their classmates, teachers, and the land where they live. 


Full Steam Ahead: Protecting the Kezar River Landscape

GLLT has a unique opportunity to protect an additional 1,350+ acres along the Kezar River Corridor in both Lovell and Sweden that would abut the Kezar Corridor Lands to the south. Completing this project would create an over 2,600-acre preserve owned and managed by GLLT, and would result in an over 3,200-acre contiguous block of conserved lands. Known as the Kezar River South Project (KRS), the property features a large suite of conservation values and public benefits.


Events and Activities

We have a year-round program of guided walks on our properties and in the area; talks on the wildlife that inhabits our region; and special events for families, friends and visitors.


Take A Walk

Many of our properties are open to the public and offer a variety of developed trails for all abilities and interests—easy ambles, challenging hikes, beautiful vistas and fascinating and unusual plants and animals.

Lands in conservation easement are private property, as is much of the abutting land to the GLLT properties. Owners have the right to restrict use.

PLEASE RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS.

Our properties are open to hunting!

Nearly all of our reserves and preserves are open to hunting, subject to Maine state regulations. While there are hunting seasons throughout the year, the fall is particularly active.

For more information check out Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife: https://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting-trapping/index.html


NOTE: CELL SERVICE IS LIMITED THROUGH THE GREATER LOVELL AREA. BE SURE TO LET SOMEONE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, HOW FAR YOU PLAN TO GO, AND WHEN YOU EXPECT TO RETURN.

Posts From the Field

For more information about the natural world in western Maine and beyond, check out:

Wonder My Way

The blog of Previous GLLT Education Director, Leigh MacMillen Hayes

Eyes on the Wild

The blog of GLLT board member, Moira Yip