Kennebunkport Conservation Trust

Kennebunkport Conservation Trust We connect people with nature through education and experience.

KCT preserves and stewards land to learn from its rich ecology and history, to protect and restore its diverse habitats, and to be inspired by its natural beauty.

Live from Goat Island Lightstation Troop 304 hard at work!For over two decades the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust has ...
06/13/2026

Live from Goat Island Lightstation Troop 304 hard at work!

For over two decades the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust has been working with local Scout Troop 304. In recent years it became the Troop's sponsor, with KCT board member and past Goat Island Lighthouse caretaker Karen Dombrowski stepping up to the plate to make it happen in the early years. KCT’s Goat Island Lighthouse serves as an ongoing project for the Scouts to volunteer their time and learn.

Dobrowski said “Throughout the years, Scouts have worked at building raised docks to enter the floating docks, created a memorial picnic area, and installed a headstone in memory of Dick Curtis. Scouts also volunteer at KCT events and properties off the island as well, by participating in trail work, setting up, cleaning up, helping with parking and doing whatever needs to be done wherever they are needed.”

Jason Dube photos.

The whale skull in Cape Porpoise, Maine, is a historic landmark located on the property where two sunny yellow cottages ...
06/12/2026

The whale skull in Cape Porpoise, Maine, is a historic landmark located on the property where two sunny yellow cottages (owned by members of the Allen family for generations) sit. The cottages, often referred to as the "whale bone cottages" are located off Pier Road. The skull and an arch made from whale jawbones and ribs have served as unique, structural garden ornaments for over a century. The cottages and property are private, and not open to the public.

Photos: KCT photo of the 1901 placement of the skull, and 2025 photo of the skull by Allen family descendant, & KCT member and supporter Louise Silberling.

All creatures great and small! The white-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) is a widespread, medium-sized land snail native...
06/12/2026

All creatures great and small!

The white-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) is a widespread, medium-sized land snail native to the coast of Maine and northeastern North America. White-lipped snails can be recognized by the highly variable, colorful shell and the distinct, thick white band around the opening of its shell in adulthood. This white-lipped snail was photographed at Trott Island this morning by Karen Suhrhoff.

KCT Thought of the Week: “The evening air smelled of berries, rich and sweet in the way that makes you close your eyes w...
06/12/2026

KCT Thought of the Week: “The evening air smelled of berries, rich and sweet in the way that makes you close your eyes when you breathe in the scent. You can’t help but do it; the smell takes ahold of you and calls to your heart, and it makes you think of all the good things that have passed and all the good things yet to come, so you close your eyes to shut out everything else that’s real, everything that’s drab or sorrowful, all the things that hurt you like the thorns.” Olivia Hawker in “The Ragged Edge of Night”

Thinking of all the Good Things: Photo by Robert Dennis

When you come to on June 20 you will have the opportunity to meet staff, stewards, volunteers and community partners.C...
06/11/2026

When you come to on June 20 you will have the opportunity to meet staff, stewards, volunteers and community partners.

Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance (CPAA) is one of those community partners. CPAA is a partnership organization of KCT and the Brick Store Museum. The organization was formed and founded in 2016 by Registered Professional Archaeologist Tim Spahr and Dr. Gemma Hudgell. Their research has shown that peoples have visited Cape Porpoise for eight thousand years. Also, That Cape Porpoise was a place of early contact between Indigenous peoples and some of the first Europeans to arrive in Northern New England.

Be sure to connect with them at Discover KCT to see "the whale" pictured here!

Let us know if you're going to pop by - RSVP via the event on our website.






Join us for a picnic on July 5th for America’s (Dessert) Potluck!12pm-2pmKennebunkport’s Village Greenweather dependentT...
06/11/2026

Join us for a picnic on July 5th for America’s (Dessert) Potluck!
12pm-2pm
Kennebunkport’s Village Green
weather dependent

The community is invited to share in communal, patriotic desserts. Lawn games, entertainment, and children’s coloring.

Organized by , Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library; Kennebunkport Historical Society; Kennebunkport Parks & Rec in celebration of the country’s Semiquincentennial.

Please bring a blanket or chairs, if desired.

For more details including dessert sign-up, volunteer opportunities, and updates, see QR code on the flyer or visit the Louis T. Graves website. If you would like to help KCT with set up, please email [email protected].



Our Annual Plant Sale is THIS WEEKEND!Sunday, June 14, 8a-11a at Our use these plants in the gardens around propert...
06/10/2026

Our Annual Plant Sale is THIS WEEKEND!
Sunday, June 14, 8a-11a at

Our use these plants in the gardens around properties and their own homes so we know they will flourish, and they have potted up over 800 of them for you.

See you Sunday! 🌿

Long live the pollinators!
06/10/2026

Long live the pollinators!

“Booth Tarkington returned for the season (1942) and signed up as a member of the state’s auxiliary coast guard patrol. ...
06/09/2026

“Booth Tarkington returned for the season (1942) and signed up as a member of the state’s auxiliary coast guard patrol. Every afternoon, weather permitting, he and Captain Stanley Thirkell would cruise the coast in the Zantre, looking for German submarines. (At the end of the season, Tarkington would joke, ‘I understand that the N***s were so afraid that I would try to speak German to them that they remained away from the coast. . .’) Tarkington provided more meaningful support for the war effort by writing propaganda for the Red Cross and the U.S. Treasury’s war bond drives.”
-Joyce Butler in “Kennebunkport, The Evolution of an American Town”

The launching of Booth Tarkington's Zantre from the Clem Clark boatyard in June, 1930.



06/09/2026

This bobcat visit is a great reminder that we may steward the land, but it is their home.

This video was taken at a property last week.


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57 Gravelly Brook Road
Kennebunkport, ME
04046

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