Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

06/18/2026

We are looking forward to the Community Meal this Saturday, co-hosted with Unity Barn Raisers! Hope to see you there!

Our Community Meal is back! We are hosting this Solstice meal with Sebasticook Regional Land Trust on Saturday, June 20th at 4:30pm at the Community Center. Local ingredients, yummy food, and good company!

06/10/2026

Save the date for the Community Solstice Meal at the Unity Community Center with UBR (Unity Barn Raisers) on June 20th!

06/04/2026

Join SRLT’s director Cheryl Daigle and SRLT board member and longtime birder Tom Aversa for a woodland walk and an exploration of a remarkable series of vernal pools at Freedom Forest Preserve. The preserve, generously donated by Jane Fasullo in 2013, also hosts a representative forest songbird community and local mammals. All are welcome but please leave the pets at home. To more fully enjoy the walk please be dressed for the weather and wear sturdy hiking shoes. We will meet at the trailhead on North Palermo Rd one mile past the intersection with Greeley and Albion roads. Please RSVP here: https://www.sebasticookrlt.org/events/nature-walk-at-freedom-forest-preserve

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

Join us tomorrow, May 23, to celebrate World Fish Migration Day at the Unity Community Center and Unity Public Library!

Celebrate World Fish Migration Day with Us!
Join Waldo County Soil & Water Conservation District, Sebasticook Regional Land Trust, and the Unity Public Library for a fun, family-friendly community art event this Saturday!
📅 Saturday, May 23
⏰ 2:00–4:00 PM
📍 Unity Community Center (32 School Street, Unity)
Drop in anytime to: Create fish- and river-themed art (origami eels, mussels, and more!)
🐟 Learn about migratory fish, like alewives and American eel
🌱 Discover how rivers connect ecosystems and communities
🎨 Visit a special exhibit and meet local artists at the Unity Public Library
This global celebration highlights the importance of healthy, free-flowing rivers and the amazing fish that depend on them.
Bring your family and friends—we hope to see you there!
👉 Learn more: https://waldocountysoilandwater.org/world-fish-migration-day

05/16/2026

We are here at the Benton Alewife Festival TODAY from 11 am to 3 pm! Join us for great music, smoked alewives, tours of the fish lift, art and educational activities including face painting, printmaking station, environmental and historic displays, good food, and much more!

05/07/2026

Thank you to our dedicated volunteer crew for coming out to help clear an old timber landing at Fowler Bog Preserve this morning in preparation for planting climate-resilient and wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs! As part of an updated Forest Management Plan for this conservation area, we are returning ten former landings to early successional stage growth to benefit grouse and woodcock, and on two of these landings we are experimenting with growing plants that will provide good forage for wildlife in the future. Today we started with butternut trees and focused on continued clearing at the second landing. If you are interested in participating in tree plantings please send us an email at info[at]sebasticookrlt.org. Trees and shrubs will be delivered in the next week or so and it's important to get them in the ground soon after for greatest success. It was a beautiful day to work outside, and it's easy to get distracted looking at plants beginning to pop from this warm spring weather! We also spotted a shrub unfamiliar to us - eastern leatherwood! The flowers were delicate and beautiful.

05/05/2026

We are really looking forward to the Benton Alewife Festival - coming up on May 16th!!

05/04/2026

Soil scientist Ron Desrosiers led one of the statewide Jane’s Walks this past weekend at SRLT’s Richardson Memorial Preserve and nearby locations in Unity. He explained how underlying soils helped shape human uses of the landscape, provided a timeline for changes in farming since the 1700s, shared a collection of artifacts from past agricultural use of his family property, and highlighted the old dam wall where Town Farm Rd. meets Sandy Stream, which once supported an iron forge. It was a fascinating walk and talk! Thanks to Ron for helping us learn more about the history of this special place in the Sebasticook River watershed. You can find out more about Jane's Walk ME at janeswalkme.org.