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Islesboro
Islands
Trust
2011/12 Annual Report
Mission
Enhance the quality of residents’ lives through
the preservation of open space,
Educate all residents as to
the value of the islands’ natural ecosystems, and
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Act as an environmental advocate on behalf of Islesboro
and the surrounding Penobscot Bay region.
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Letter from Our Outgoing President
Your Trust has enjoyed a remarkable 12 months of exciting accomplishments. Its future
could not look brighter under the capable leadership of its professional staff, Steve Miller
and Aaron Megquier.
In addition to being granted five significant new easements, IIT acquired the historical
Broad Point, a 47-acre penninsula with 3,000 feet of shoreline. This was brought about by
the generosity and foresight of 23 Islesboro families
who quickly recognized the need for permanent
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protection of this island gem. Chris Allen ably led
a small group of fundraisers to obtain pledges in
The Day Brigham Family
less than six months to cover the purchase price.
Marlane and Nicholas Brountas
We can’t thank them enough for responding so
Betsy and Ed Cohen
generously and so quickly.
Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen
You have no doubt heard that Sue Hatch, a founder
and Trustee since day one, has taken a twoyear sabbatical from serving on the Board. Her
unequaled service to IIT has been heralded by her
fellow Trustees with a Resolution of Appreciation
prominently displayed at the Cregar Center. Please
stop by and read about her many significant
contributions to the Trust
Lois Chiles and Dick Gilder
The Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust
Jody and Tom Gill
Marny and Roger Heinen
Karen and Bayard Hollins
Maisie and Jamie Houghton
Amanda and Glad Jones
Paul Kazilionis
Linda and Jack Knebel
Judy and Nigel MacEwan
Deborah and Bob McNeil
Robin and Daniel Smith
Marilyn and Lang Smith
Lanny Thomas
The Daniel Thorne Foundation
Mark Umbach and Chris Becker
Virginia Valentine
The Mary and Pyam Williams Family
Susan Wolf and Stephen Reynolds
In other significant personnel changes, Chuck
Verrill, a prominent Washington lawyer dealing
primarily with international trade matters, has
succeeded me as President. Chuck has been deeply
involved with the Natural Resources Council of
Maine, playing a role in the $72 million project of
returning the Penobscot River to its natural state,
allowing 12 species of fish, including Atlantic
Salmon, to once again travel to its headwaters to
spawn. Chuck has also been deeply involved on a
pro bono basis in the battle to require the proposed
LPG storage tank in Searsport to be subject to
an Environmental Impact Statement. The Trust is extremely lucky to have someone of
Chuck’s stature and abilities take over the leadership position at this critical juncture. He
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has asked me to stay involved as Treasurer and to assist Chris Allen in fundraising so you
will still be hearing from me.
We would also like to welcome four of Islesboro’s finest as members of the Advisory
Council: Mary Beth Blake, Todd Congdon, Jon Kerr and Nancy Krusell. Alice Rogers,
after 27 years of distinguished service on the Council is stepping down. We thank her for
her devotion and support.
On a personal note, my seven years at the helm have been filled mostly with tail winds
thanks to all those who contribute so much to the activities of the Trust. Space limits my
naming them all but they can be found within this Annual Report. Our Members should
be shown as assets on the balance sheet but it would be impossible to properly assess
their value.
Ready about... hard-a-lee. This tiller is all yours, Chuck.
Steve Miller
Lang Smith
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Letter from Our Incoming President
Assuming the role as President of Islesboro Islands Trust is an honor, a privilege and a
challenge. Growing up in Maine, I was enthralled by and enjoyed the natural beauty of
the State’s natural resources as I saw them from youthful eyes. Later, I realised the perils
of irresponsible development and the
consequences of river pollution on Maine’s
ecosystem. This led my family and me to
donate incremental conservation easements
to IIT beginning in 1987 that protect the
ecological characteristics of our property
on East Shore Drive. In addition, for years,
I have also been honored to work with
the Natural Resources Council of Maine
and other environmental organisations to
restore the Kennebec, St. Croix, Sebasticook
and Penobscot rivers.
There have been notable successes, but
much remains to be done. Most exciting
has been the opportunity to work with the Penobscot Indian Nation and to learn and
appreciate how committed those wonderful people are to their traditional cultural values
and the environment of Maine.
But I also appreciate the need of Maine people for decent economic opportunities to raise
families with job security and avoid medical and economic crisis. I firmly believe that
conservation and economic opportunity can go hand-in-hand and am convinced that IIT
can be a vital force in working toward an economically vital, but environmentally robust,
Maine. This brings me to Searsport.
Last winter I signed on to help IIT and the grassroots group Thanks But No Tank (TBNT)
in efforts to require a full environmental, economic and safety assessment of a proposed
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) facility in Searsport.
Under Maine law, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is required to
consider adequately a host of concerns that include all “potential primary, secondary, and
cumulative impacts of the development on the character, quality, and uses of the land, air,
and water on the development site and on the area likely to be affected by the proposed
development.” Sadly, DEP did not do so and issued a permit, which has been appealed.
We hope the Superior Court will agree with our objections.
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Jazmyne Schoppe
Dear Friends,
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However, a favourable Superior Court ruling will not
automatically relieve our concerns about the proposed
facility. Only a federal agency can require that the
developer provide detailed information about safety,
need, alternatives, and economic and environmental
impacts; information we believe everyone should
have. Hundreds of people, as well as IIT and TBNT,
asked the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), the
federal agency having primary jurisdiction over
this proposal, to require an Environmental Impact
Statement. ACOE chose not to heed that chorus of
concern and, instead, undertook a more limited
Environmental Assessment (EA). The EA failed to take a hard look at several matters
of grave importance to Islesboro and the region, perhaps most importantly whether
the safety, economic and environmental risks arising from the proposed facility are
adequately offset by the minimal benefits the development might bring. IIT continues,
working cooperatively with TBNT and others, to press for sufficiently detailed analysis
in this matter to make the right determination for Islesboro and for Penobscot Bay.
Of course, IIT also continues to
provide our community with
extremely valuable, protected open
space. This effort will continue
unabated. We also intend to
offer environmental education
opportunities for everybody that
enrich our lives today and will
continue to add significance to
the lives of generations to come.
I hope I can do justice to the high
standards that past IIT Presidents
Dev Hamlen and Lang Smith brought
to this position. They ushered IIT through an incredibly active and successful period.
It is a tough act to follow but I am looking forward to the challenge! Please feel free to
let me know of your conservation aspirations and concerns. I will do my best to address
them all.
With warm regards:
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Executive Director’s Report
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life,
there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson
Amici Curiae:
I live for these moments. Don’t we
all? These special, peaceful, reflective
moments speak to the creative
epiphany of Robert McCloskey
and Frank Benson and the spiritual
rejuvenation of Edna St. Vincent Millay; to the reason tourists drive hundreds of miles so
they can eat lobster in Lincolnville; why year-rounders weather the fluctuating, seasonal
economy; why magnificent, large, valuable homes dot the island’s shore. These are
moments we cherish — and these experiences drive our economy.
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Late one recent afternoon, the setting
sun flooded great gobs of yellow light
across West Penobscot Bay, settling like
honey on trees, boats and ledges. Not
a breath of air stirred the bay waters —
they were mirror-still, without a ripple
except the occasional wake of a loon or
cormorant diving for dinner.
I am almost tempted, sometimes, to say, “It’s the environment, stupid.” That our
economy, and all things economic are, in fact, embedded in the environment seems so
obvious! Early this summer Susan Collins was quoted as saying, “For some, the
environment IS the economy.” I might add, for everyone, there is no economy without
the environment!
Why, then, intentionally risk these moments of great beauty and
clarity, this engine and carrier of our economy?
Most folks reading this know that DCP Searsport LLC wants to
build a massive LPG facility at the small, multi-purpose Mack Point
port in Searsport, Penobscot Bay, Maine. The proposed facility
includes a 22.7 million gallon LPG tank and approximately 24 acres
of related industrial development. It is less commonly known that
DCP Searsport LLC is a multi-national, limited liability partnership
that is a subsidiary of DCP Midstream Partners, owned, in turn,
by Phillips 66 and Spectra Energy. It is difficult to imagine an LLC
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The Threat
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experiencing a moment of beauty and clarity; I am quite certain a large corporation
never does. People, not institutions or corporations, bring awareness to the environment.
The real costs and benefits of the LPG proposal can only be weighed and measured at a
human, citizenry scale.
LPG is more dangerous than LNG, according to the National Association of State Fire
Marshalls. LPG and liquefied ethylene are more hazardous than LNG because they have
(1) higher specific gravities, (2) a greater tendency to form explosive vapor clouds, (3)
lower minimum ignition energies, and (4) higher fundamental burning velocities.
US Coast Guard review of the proposal acknowledges, “… the potential for severe
consequences as a result of a release of LPG does exist…” The USCG goes on to say:
“… emergency response capabilities within the immediate region are in keeping with the rural
nature of the area – minimally staffed, minimally equipped and trained, and limited in their
ability to expand due to relatively small tax bases. This is of obvious concern to the region’s first
responders; a fire of any magnitude would be catastrophic to the immediate area.
“It’s logical for one to expect that, in general, shore-based fire departments, emergency response
units, and emergency management organizations located in close proximity to an LPG facility
would also have the appropriate training and equipment necessary to launch an initial response
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capability to an LPG fire and/or related medical emergency. Unfortunately, in keeping with
the rural nature of the area that capability does not currently exist in the Penobscot Bay
region…”
The Setting
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The LPG proposal is for Penobscot Bay, neither
a truly remote nor a fully industrialized
location. Penobscot Bay covers more than 950
square miles and surrounds 1,700 islands,
rocks and ledges, encompassing almost
one-third of Maine’s coastline. It is the
state’s largest bay and is surrounded by 20
coastal towns, 2 small cities, and 11 island
communities.
The Maine Coastal Guide says this about Penobscot Bay: “Dream of perfect cruising
grounds, of islands large and small, grand and modest, of intriguing harbors and alluring
towns, of broad reaches and narrow tickles, of gritty fishing villages and sophisticated
summer resorts, of lonely outposts lost in time. There is such a place, and the place is
Penobscot Bay.”
Have we now reached a time in history where humans are
hostile to all other humans, on a global scale, except those who
appear to satisfy a fleeting economic advantage? How can
anyone favor the potential holocaust of a LPG explosion when
the only “need” would appear to be corporate inertia – DCP’s
arrogant tendency to keep pushing an outdated solution to the
outdated problem of propane supply? Where is our sense of
proportion?
As Rachel Carson asked in the June 16, 1962 edition of the New
Yorker (her first installment of Silent Spring):
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In 1990, the bay’s waters and shoreline generated more than $500 million (nearly one
billion adjusted for inflation) in revenue and 3,000 jobs. The Island Institute retained
noted economist Chuck Lawton to re-examine this existing and
vibrant regional economy and help us understand how the
proposed LPG facility will affect that natural resource dependent
economic activity. However, affect us it will, even though viable
alternative locations are evident.
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“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable
that which is inferior or detrimental, as though we had lost the will or
the vision to demand that which is good? Such thinking, in the words of American
ecologist Paul Shepard, ‘idealizes life with only its head out of water,
inches above the limits of tolerance of the corruption of its own environment.’
And he goes on to ask, ‘Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons,
a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our
enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity?
Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?’”
The Need?
No clear and compelling need exists
for this LPG facility in this location at
this time. Ample domestic supply is
readily available by rail and truck, (2)
no one, not even DCP, claims there will
be price savings to Maine consumers
of propane and (3) there is clearly no
environmental advantage but, instead,
significant environmental threat.
At the consumer end of the supply
chain, propane in Maine costs about the
same as fuel oil but more than natural
gas, cord wood and wood pellets.
Maine has the lowest price per gallon of
propane in New England, even though New Hampshire and Rhode Island have modestsized LPG marine import facilities.
According to DCP, the Searsport facility will import propane from northern Africa, the
North Sea, and the Middle East and not domestic propane.
James Guyette in the propane industry journal LPGas says, “An expected bounty of
natural gas harvested from the nation’s abundant shale fields is widely viewed as a gamechanger for the propane industry. The increased flow of natural gas liquids production
from the shale fields is expected to position the United States as a net exporter of propane
while boosting the domestic supply of propane for years to come.”
DCP represents that the purpose of this facility is to “…ensure a dependable, affordable
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supply of propane into Maine.” DCP also claims they will accomplish this by importing
foreign propane by LPG tanker, which are subject to weather, pirates and localized
political turmoil that domestic sources do not face.
Maine has nine rail- and/or road-served propane terminals today and a tenth rail and
road-served terminal under construction in southern Maine this year.
The proposed Searsport import facility is contrary to both a state and national “energy
independence” goal. The dramatic increase in domestic production of propane over the
past two years suggests that Maine could secure a much more dependable and affordable
supply by rail, truck or pipeline. If we need greater storage capacity, tanks may be located
near those transportation corridors and far away from population centers.
Embedded in Nature
Maine’s Natural Resource Protection Act is very clear about the importance of our
unmolested natural environment:
“The Legislature finds and declares that the State’s rivers and streams,
great ponds, fragile mountain areas, freshwater wetlands, significant wildlife habitat,
coastal wetlands and coastal sand dunes systems are resources of state significance.
These resources have great scenic beauty and unique characteristics, unsurpassed
recreational, cultural, historical and environmental value of present and future benefit
to the citizens of the State and that uses are causing the rapid degradation and,
in some cases, the destruction of these critical resources, producing significant adverse
economic and environmental impacts and threatening the health, safety and
general welfare of the citizens of the State.
“The purposes of this Act are: To declare a
national policy which will encourage productive
and enjoyable harmony between man and his
environment; to promote efforts which will
prevent or eliminate damage to the environment
and biosphere and stimulate the health and
welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the
ecological systems and natural resources important
to the Nation; and to establish a Council on
Environmental Quality.
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In the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, we find a similar acknowledgment of
and commitment to the natural world:
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Yet, despite the obvious safety threats and better alternatives, Maine’s Department of
Environmental Protection and the federal Army Corps of Engineers issued permits
to allow construction! How can we protect ourselves when governments are more
committed to the welfare of corporations than that of human beings?
Does not each Penobscot Bay citizen have the right to feel secure
in his or her own home? Is not that a basic human right? With this
unthinkable destructive threat before us, to whom may we turn for
moral responsibility?
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Why?
We return to the essential question, “Why introduce devastation and
vast contamination into our Pen Bay world in the first place?”
According to a piece by Sandra Steingraber in the September 2012
edition of Orion, Rachel Carson, in her final speech, “The Pollution of
Our Environment,” delivered six months before her death, as she suffered mortally from
cancer, asked:
“Why, in the face of overwhelming evidence of human harm, do we continue
to pollute? Why do we pretend that alternatives to defilement and risk do not exist,
even when other courses of action are available to us? Why do we behave not like
people guided by scientific knowledge, but more like the proverbial bad housekeeper
who sweeps dirt under the rug in the hope of getting it out of sight?”
There is much that biologist Rachel Carson would find troubling in the LPG proposal and,
perhaps like the world that initially resisted but eventually accepted her cries of warning,
IIT, along with nine communities and multiple grassroots organizations, is sounding the
alarm regarding these actual and proposed acts of corporate and government recklessness
and irresponsibility.
Even as Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring:
“If, having endured much, we have at last asserted our ‘right to know,’
and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take
senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel
of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals;
we should look about and see what other course is open to us.”
During a recent interview, Bernie Sanders was asked, “Does your being a Vermonter
inform how you perceive this global [climate change] issue?” He replied, “When you
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live in a rural state where agriculture is so important,
when you have a whole lot of lakes and you border
on Lake Champlain, you are very aware of the
environment, aware of the interconnectedness of
things.” IIT and our partners in this LPG struggle are
intensely aware of and speak for the environment in
which some would place this unnecessary travesty.
Coda
The joy of that recent afternoon moment did not arise
so much from innocence as it did from potentiality,
from the subliminal, epigenetic possibility of mature,
authentic integration with the natural world, where sensory experience brings us into
reciprocity with the ecosphere. For just a moment, I felt one with this place.
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We are connected to the salt air we breathe and the rain-and-soil-fed foods we grow. We
are part of this place and this place is part of who we each are. Penobscot Bay is today
open and fresh because we worked hard together for years to maintain that ecological
integrity. The contest for our future has entered a new, ominous period. We cannot fail;
we must persevere.
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Schedule of Receipts and Disbursements
For the Years Ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2012
Receipts
Contributions:
General Operations
LPG Legal
Easement Stewardship
Broad Point – Contributions
Broad Point – Pledges
Hinkle Property
June 30, 2011
June 30, 2012
$194,721.84
$192,763.41
—
17,000.00
10,000.00—
—
80,000.00
—
934,387.51
100,304.40
10,000.00
Total Contributions
Interest Income
Vegetable Sales
Silent Auction
Total Receipts
$305,026.24
$1,234,150.92
622.60
—
1,123.00
509.94
988.50
—
$306,771.84
$1,235,649.36
Disbursements
General Operations
Salaries, Health Insurance and Taxes
Accounting and Bookkeeping
Island Explorations & Expeditions
Insurance
Legal Expenses
Maintenance
Miscellaneous
Office
Preserve Stewardship
Printing
Property Taxes
Subscriptions, Dues and Donations
Travel
Utilities
$130,338.51
6,355.70
1,460.06
4,972.00
916.18
5,498.47
266.30
9,670.90
2,102.50
3,788.63
17,641.04
2,200.00
1,832.16
6,776.58
$137,226.43
6,641.50
4,376.22
6,305.03
6,030.83
5,192.18
408.85
7,307.97
1,788.59
4,622.05
17,592.60
1,700.00
2,078.59
5,561.51
$193,729.03
$206,832.35
—
50,000.00
7,077.78
17,000.00
55,000.00
7,077.78
$57,077.78
$79,077.78
$250,806.81
$285,910.13
$55,965.03
$949,739.23
Total Operating Expenses
Special Projects and Capital Expenses
LPG Legal Hinkle Property Bargain Purchase
Frame Easement Bargain Purchase
Total Expenses – Special and Capital
Total Disbursements
Excess of Receipts over Disbursements
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Balance Sheet Summary
For the Years Ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2012
ASSETS
June 30, 2011
June 30, 2012
Current Assets
Checking Account
$43,749.58 $50,572.82
Broad Point Account
—
80,000.00
Easement Stewardship Fund
20,288.44
20,315.83
Preserve Stewardship Fund
5,476.06
5,485.50
ING Direct Savings
95,927.49
31,351.94
Wells Fargo Cash Account
—
1,251.01
Total Current Assets
$165,441.57
$188,977.10
Equipment Net of Depreciation
Pledges Receivable – General Fund
Pledges Receivable – Broad Point
6,072.46
13,000.00
—
Land, Building & Easements
Spruce Island Preserve
125,281.00
Hutchins Island Preserve
99,508.00
Big Tree Beach 29,965.00
Turtle Head Preserve
630,000.00
Hutchins Marsh Preserve
75,903.71
Herbert Preserve
180,880.00
Cregar Center
164,881.09
Batchelor Preserve
85,455.00
The Narrows Preserve
90,479.00
Hinkle Preserve
250,000.00
Bluff – Easement
125,016.75
Speed – Easement
195,107.00
Frame – Easement
85,000.00
Total Land, Building & Easements
Total Assets
6,072.46
10,000.00
934,387.51
125,281.00
99,508.00
29,965.00
630,000.00
75,903.71
180,880.00
164,881.09
85,455.00
90,479.00
250,000.00
125,016.75
195,107.00
85,000.00
2,137,476.55 2,137,476.55
$2,321,990.58 $3,276,913.62
LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities
Accrued Payroll
$3,967.19
$4,280.46
Accounts Payable
1,840.86
1,875.75
Hinkle Property Note
55,000.00
52,500.00
Frame Property Note
7,077.78
7,077.78
Total
Current
Liabilities
$67,885.83
Long Term Liabilities
Hinkle Property Note
52,500.00
—
Frame Property Note
42,466.66
35,388.88
Total
Long
Term
Liabilities
94,966.66
Total
Liabilities
Total Equity
Total Liabilities and Equity
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$65,733.99
35,388.88
$162,852.49$101,122.87
$2,159,138.09$3,175,790.75
$2,321,990.58
$3,276,913.62
Grantors of Conservation Easements
1986 – 2012
Hodding Carter III & Patricia Derian
2012
Dudley H. Ladd
Ethan & Haven Ladd
2012
2012
Dr. & Mrs. Robert McNeil
The Phyllis Frame Family
2012
2008
Denis Moonan &
Pamela MacBrayne
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Lamb
2007
2007
Sue Hatch & Tom Tutor
Missy Hatch & Vern Spinosa
Gary & Greg Yeaton
2007
2007
Lawrence Hoder & Harriett Bering
2007
Members of IIT
“The Field”
2006
Turtle Head Cove LLC
Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Williams
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pike
2004
Rev. & Mrs. Ned Sunderland
2002
2001
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Berg
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Burgess
2000
1998
Ginny & Lynn Hall
The Hawker Trust
1996
1996
Jack & Sue Gardner
Mr. & Mrs. George Post
1995
1993
Mildred Stanley
Capt. & Mrs. V.V. Utgoff
1993
1992
Mr. & Mrs. Frank West
1990
Caroline (Neenie) Pierce Doyle
1989
Mr. & Mrs. James Rowan
1989
Veronica Pendleton
Anne Owsley
1989
1988
Mary Ann & Chuck Verrill
Lang & Valerie Smith
1987
1986
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Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Contribution Year 2011—2012
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
American Eagle
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Mrs. Catherine V. Brigham
Carla & Hans Brigham
Mr. Nicholas Brountas & Ms. Marlane Melican
Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust
Mr. & Mrs. David R. Weaver
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wenner
Penobscot Heron
Mrs. Lucy A. Burr
Ms. Mary Caulkins & Mr. Karl Kister
Caulkins Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Harden L. Crawford, III
The Elkins Family Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Reid D. Hausmann
Mr. & Mrs. Jack G. Knebel
Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Lawrence
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Ledbetter
Mr. Mark Umbach & Mr. Chris Becker
Islesboro Eider
Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Cohen
Mr. Jonathan Z. Cohen & Ms. Julia Pershan
Daniel K. Thorne Foundation
David M. Leuschen Foundation
The Dunn Family
Mr. Richard Gilder & Ms. Lois Chiles
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Gill, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Roger J. Heinen, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Bayard E. Hollins –
The Elizabeth Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Houghton
Mr. Paul D. Kazilionis
Dr. & Mrs. Robert G. McNeil
Mr. Stephen P. Reynolds & Ms. Susan Wolf
Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Stafford, III
Mr. Landon Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. E. Massie Valentine
Allen Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Allen
Mr. Philip Behr & Ms. Elisabeth Rowan
Mr. & Mrs. Adam Bird
Mrs. Elizabeth Weintz Cerf –
The Harbor Lights Foundation
Maine Osprey
Steve Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Gladstone Jones, III
Mr. & Mrs. Nigel S. MacEwan
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick S. Moseley, III
Mostyn Foundation – Mr. Arthur B. Choate
Dr. & Mrs. C. Daniel Smith
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Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Contribution Year 2011—2012
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Claflin
Mr. & Mrs. A. Lee Fentress
Ms. Elaine W. Fiske & Mr. Philip L. Ladd
G. Peabody & Rose Gardner Charitable Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gillespie
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Mr. Henry Conklin & Ms. Carol Pierson
Dr. & Mrs. Phillip T. George
Ms. Margery M. Hamlen & Mr. Joseph Hammer
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Katzoff
Mr. & Mrs. Abner Kingman
Mr. & Mrs. Haven Ladd
Ms. Sasha Lazard & Mr. Andrew Allen
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher E. O’Donnell
Mr. George B. Post
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Reeves
Mr. & Mrs. John G. Rex-Waller
Mr. & Mrs. Russell S. Reynolds, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. William R. Rogers
Dr. & Mrs. William Rosenberg
Mr. Charles J. Serns
Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Stevens
Mr. J. Fred Weintz, Jr. –
The Harbor Lights Foundation
(in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz)
Dr. Eric C. Weintz – The Harbor Lights Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Archibald L. Gillies
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gohagan
Mr. Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, IV &
Ms. Mallory K. Marshall
Mr. & Mrs. Devens H. Hamlen
Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund
Helen Francis Ladd Family Fund of the
Triangle Community Foundation
Ms. Ann B. Hersey
Mr. James D. Houghton & Ms. Constance Coburn
Ms. Nina B. Houghton & Mr. Kent George, Jr.
Jockey Hollow Foundation
John Lowell Gardner Fund – Boston Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Kaminski
Mr. & Mrs. Dana G. Mead
Robert & Marietta Ramsdell
Mr. & Mrs. J. Woodward Redmond
Mrs. Polly Weintz Sanna –
The Harbor Lights Foundation
(in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz)
Mr. & Mrs. George Stevens
Stuart & Robin Ray Family Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Charles O. Verrill, Jr.
White Pine
Aaron Megquier
Dr. & Mrs. Nile L. Albright
Ms. Madelaine L. Alexander & Mr. Jon Kerr
Mr. David W. Boulton
Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds Burgund
Mr. James Colihan
Mr. Donald P. Etchison
Mr. David Evelyn
Ms. Maria Christina Forney
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick M. Gardner
Ms. Caroline A. Gillespie
Ms. Marjory W. Hardwick
Red Oak
Mr. Hodding Carter III & Ms. Patricia Derian
Mr. Mark M. Collins, Jr.
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Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Contribution Year 2011—2012
Aaron Megquier
Mr. & Mrs. Pegram Harrison
Mr. & Mrs. David B. Hathaway
The Healey Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. John Higginson
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Keating
Mr. John Lanier & Ms. Jane Garvey
Mr. Sidney E. Lazard
Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Leighton
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Leighton
Mr. Martin Phillips & Ms. Anmiryam Budner
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Badoian
Ms. Helen Barrett
Mrs. May P. Bartlett
Mr. & Mrs. Allen H. Barton
Mr. John C. Bayles
Mr. & Mrs. Wirt A. Beard, Jr.
Ms. Lorrie Beaulieu
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Beck
Mr. David Beck
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Belmonte
Ms. Mary M. Bentley
Dr. Harriet Bering & Dr. Larry Hoder
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Berry
Mr. William Boardman & Ms. Lisa Satchfield
Mr. Alexander F. Brigham
David & Elizabeth Brock
Mr. & Mrs. Clayton S. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Burke
Paul & Julie Butler
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Cambra
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Carmichel
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Carpenter
Rev. & Mrs. Norman J. Catir, Jr.
Mrs. Eleanor N. Caulkins
2012
Islesboro Islands Trust
Conservation Awards
Drs. J. Andrew & Kelly Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Rooney
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Rothschild
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Sale
Ms. Patricia Scarpelli
Mr. Marc V. Schnur
Mr. & Mrs. David Sessions
Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Slater
Ms. Alix T. Thorne
Ms. Lisa Train & Mr. Clive Pinnington
Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Warren, Jr.
Mr. Richard Youngman & Ms. Vanessa Gillespie
Dr. & Mrs. Eric K. Zitzmann
For students demonstrating an appreciation and
awareness of ecological principles, an abiding sense
of Islesboro’s special environmental qualities, and
an understanding of the importance of community service
during the 2011-2012 school year.
Elementary School
Betsy Babbidge
Middle School
Brooke Johnson
High School
Forest Putnam
Ansley Bell Memorial
Scholarship to Tanglewood
Timber Spruce
This memorial scholarship is supported by a dedicated
fund at the Maine Community Foundation, and locally
administered by Islesboro Islands Trust.
Mrs. Laura Ault
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Babbidge
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bacon
Sylvia Randlett
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Aaron Megquier
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Contribution Year 2011—2012
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
Aaron Megquier
Islesboro Island News
Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Inc.
Ms. Alexandra P. Jamali
Fredericka & Charles Jenner
Ms. Beverley Jones
Mr. John Kauer & Ms. Barbara Talamo
Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Kerr
Mr. & Mrs. Jay Kislak
Mr. Erwin M. Koeritz
Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Krajczar
Mr. Robert Kramer
Ms. Alison Wood & Ms. Nancy Krusell
Mr. Peter Lacoux & Ms. Mai Watts
Mr. & Mrs. Ethan Ladd
Mr. Dudley H. Ladd
Dr. & Mrs. James Lawrence III
Ms. Alice Fromer Leighton
Ms. Joan Lillie
Ms. Constance Logan & Mr. Mark Kremen
Timothy & Barbara Logan
Mr. Nicholas T. Love
Ms. Christy Love-Sadron
Mrs. Pauline M. Low
Mrs. Andrea Lutz
Aaron Megquier
Christopher Choa & Nina Train Choa
Mr. & Mrs. David Clark
Mr. & Mrs. Bradford P. Colcord
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Congdon
Mr. & Mrs. Ian Connor
Ms. Nancy Crooker & Mr. George Siscoe
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Cullen
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Cullen
Dark Harbor Boat Yard Corp.
Mr. & Mrs. Jon Drezner
Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Emmi
Mr. George Evans & Ms. Shar Piper
Dr. & Mrs. Dudley C. Fort, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Foster
Mrs. Phyllis Frame
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Gates
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Gilbert
Mrs. Dorothy B. Gilbert
Dr. Martin J. Gliserman & Ms. Marilyn Rye
Mrs. Irene Emery Goodale
Mr. Richard Grisaru & Ms. Gitta Robinson
Mr. & Mrs. Harleston J. Hall, Jr.
Mr. R.B. Pegram Harrison &
Mr. Anthony Evans-Pughe
Ms. M. Melissa Hatch & Mr. Vernon Spinosa
Ms. Susan Hatch & Mr. Thomas Tutor
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Hauser
Mr. Thomas L. Hinkle
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Hobart
Mr. & Mrs. Neil P. Hoffmann
Mr. & Mrs. Fielding Lewis Holmes
Mr. Michael Horn & Ms. Patricia Beliveau
Mr. Peter D. Matthews
Dr. & Mrs. William C. Meade
Ms. Sally J. Michel
Mr. James Miller & Ms. Mollie Noyes
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Miller
Mr. & Mrs. James Mitchell
Holly Mitchell & Will Chapman
Denis Moonan & Pam MacBrayne
Ms. Kathryn Nelson
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Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Contribution Year 2011—2012
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
Ms. Sarah Tully
Ms. Katherine P. Tuttle
Ms. Paulette K. Vanderhei
Ms. Anne Warren
Mrs. Janet M. Webb
Dr. Susan West
Rev. E. Joanne Whitehead & Ms. Lois Hill
Aaron Megquier
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick O’Bannon
Ms. Sandra Oliver
Mr. & Mrs. Craig R. Olson
Mrs. Lilias Outerbridge
Mr. Charles W. Pendleton
Ms. Carol Andrea Pendleton
Mr. Stanley Pendleton & Ms. Diana Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. David Petzel
Mr. Roy Pfeil & Ms. Juliana Post
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Post
Mr. & Mrs. Joel S. Post
Ms. Diana Post
Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Purinton
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Putnam
Mr. Michael M. Reid
Mrs. Yvette Reid
Mrs. Aileen Reynolds & Mr. Robert Silverstein
Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Sargent
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Sauter
Mr. Jack Schlottman & Ms. Rebecca Schnur
Dr. & Mrs. Alan D. Schreiber
Mrs. Katharine Schwarzenbach
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Senior
Dr. & Mrs. Huntington Sheldon
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Slawson
Mr. & Mrs. David Speed
Mrs. Mary E. Steele
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Stocking
Ms. Gladys Thomas
Mr. Sam Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Harry P. Tower
Mr. & Mrs. John Trickett
Mrs. Priscilla B. Tully
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Wilder
Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Wonson
Mrs. Catherine M. Wood
Ben & Julie Wurts
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Zelonka
Ms. Mary A. Zimmerman
In-Kind Contributions
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Badoian
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Berry
Ms. Margery M. Hamlen & Mr. Joseph Hammer
Mr. & Mrs. George Hopkins
Aaron & Ashley Megquier
Mr. & Mrs. Craig R. Olson
Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Christian Stolte
Ms. Gladys Thomas
Aaron Megquier
Grants
Ansley Bell Tanglewood 4-H Camp and
Learning Center Scholarship Fund of
the Maine Community Foundation
Christ Church Centennial Fund of
the Maine Community Foundation
Davis Conservation Foundation
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Islesboro Islands Trust Membership
Founders
Lily Guest
Anne Owsley
Edward Lawrence
Liberty Redmond
Lydia Rolerson
Board of Trustees
Charles Verrill, President
Langhorne Smith, Treasurer
Sara Babbidge
Johan Brigham
Andrew Coombs
Darrell Crate
Mary Beth Blake
Maxwell Caulkins
Jonathan Cohen
Todd Congdon
Shey Conover
Thomas Gill, Jr.
Archibald Gillies
Margery Hamlen
Pegram Harrison
Jewell Hausmann
James D. Houghton
Laura Houle
Christopher Allen, Vice President
James Mitchell, Secretary
Devens Hamlen
Heather Knight
Julia Pershan
Diana Roberts
Beverley Rogers
Sue Stafford
Thomas L. Tutor
Nigel MacEwan
Deborah McNeil
Stephen Phillips
Shar Piper
Julie Reidy
William Rosenberg
Elisabeth Rowan
Philip Seymour
Landon Thomas
Frances Train
Daniel Tutor
Virginia Valentine
Advisory Council
Gladstone Jones, III
Jon Kerr
Sandra Kramer
Nancy Krusell
Edward Lawrence
Robert Luxembourg
Staff and Contractors
Kangas & Kangas, Certified Public Accountant
Fred Stocking, Legal Counsel
Madeline Tomlin Associates, Bookkeeping
Jairus Miller, Trail Maintenance & Mowing
Bill Schoppe, Trail Maintenance
Stephen Miller, Executive Director
Aaron Megquier, Assistant Director
Kristen Lau, Island Explorations Counselor
Heather Sinclair, Island Expeditions Leader
Committees
Education, Communications
and Special Events
Preserve Stewardship
Helen Barrett
Peigi Cole-Jolliffe
Henry Conklin &
Carol Pierson
Michael & Kathy Kerr
David & Lauren
Runnion-Bareford
Lisa Satchfield
George Siscoe
Allie Wood &
Nancy Krusell
Hanna Wood-Krusell
Pille Wood-Krusell
Bruce Claflin
John & Shana Izaijs
Jairus Miller
Daniel Tutor
Jesse Tutor
Thomas L. Tutor
Lisa Beck, Chair
Sara Babbidge
Margery Hamlen
Heather Knight
Easement Stewardship
Trail Maintenance
Sue Stafford, Chair
Linda & Martin Badoian
Greg & Lisa Beck
David Brock & Family
Todd &
Robyn Anne Congdon
Patty Crawford
Alice Fay
Tom & Jody Gill
Linda Graf
David & Harriett
Hathaway
Jewell Hausmann
Nina Herrick
Owen & Beth Howell
Glad & Amanda Jones
Fundraising and Membership
Christopher Allen, Chair
Archibald Gillies
Gladstone Jones, III
Julia Pershan
Beverley Rogers
William Rosenberg
Langhorne Smith
Virginia Valentine
Land Conservation
Devens Hamlen, Chair
Christopher Allen
Darrell Crate
Archibald Gilles
Edward Lawrence
Robert McNeil
Jim Mitchell
Julie Reidy
Charles Verrill
Jon Kauer & Barbara Talamo
Laurie & Mark Keating
Michael & Kathy Kerr
Haven & Molly Ladd
Molly McNamara
Jairus Miller
Holly Mitchell & Family
Kim Morse & Taylor Ongaro
Craig & Melissa Olson
Julia Pershan
Anne Renarde & Dan Boxer
Katie Schwartzenbach
Lang & Marilyn Smith
Walter Stafford
Allie Wood & Nancy Krusell
Kay Wood
Cregar Center
Nominating
Sue Stafford, Chair
Helen Barrett
Shar Piper
Julie Reidy
Beverley Rogers
Elisabeth Rowan
Evan Schmidt, Chair
Johan Brigham
Stephen Miller
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Stephen Miller
Islesboro Nature Trails
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Warren’s Landing
This property, located at
the end of Lime Kiln Road,
was given to the Town of
Islesboro by IIT in 1993.
It offers views across East
Penobscot Bay toward
Castine and Cape Rosier.
Warren’s Landing is the
site of an historic lime kiln
and steamboat wharf.
Turtle Head
This preserve at the northern tip of
Islesboro offers dramatic views of
both east and west Penobscot Bay,
spectacular geological formations,
historical sites and a variety of
interesting ecological features.
Access is from Turtle Head Road.
Shore access is also available.
Three trails: 1.5 miles total
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Big Tree Beach
This is a popular swimming
beach with westerly views
across Seal Harbor to Flat
Island and the Camden Hills.
Access is from Main Road.
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Narrows Preserve
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This short loop trail along the
shoreline of Crow Cove offers
scenic salt marsh views and
good birdwatching. Access is
from Main Road.
Broad Point Preserve
IIT’s newest preserve,
acquired in August 2012,
offers nearly fifty acres
of spectacular shorefront
on Mill Creek, Broad
Cove and Gilkey
Harbor. Trails are in
development.
Lily Guest Trail
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Hinkle Preserve
Provides access to a sand and
gravel beach and a short loop
trail through a fern meadow and
under mature hardwoods. Access
is from Point Comfort Road.
One trail: 0.2 miles
Hutchins Island and Marsh
These neighboring preserves offer two
spectacular hikes in the Coombs and
Parker Coves area. Elaine’s Trail leads
inland around the wetlands and beaver
flowages of Hutchins Marsh. The Hutchins
Island Trail crosses a tidal sandbar, and
then follows the shoreline of Hutchins
Island. Both trails offer excellent wildlife
viewing opportunities. Over 139 species
of plants and 112 species of birds and
other wildlife are found here. Parking is
at the end of Bluff Road.
Two trails: 2.5 miles total
Herbert and Batchelor Preserves
The Herbert Preserve offers two loop trails
in the scenic Ryder’s Cove area. The Herbert
Trail explores the western side of the preserve
following the salt marsh edge and returning
through upland forest and steep drainage ravines.
The Eastern Trail winds through early-successional
forest alond the shore of the Mill Pond providing
access to the Day Brigham Memorial Lookout.
Access is from Ryder’s Cove Road.
Two trails: 1.75 miles total
This IIT-managed trail is
entirely on private land and
offers a beautiful walk along
the shore of Jones Cove.
One trail: 1.5 miles
PO Box 182 · 376 West Bay Road · Islesboro, Maine 04848
207-734-6907 (voice) · 207-734-6747 (fax) · [email protected] (email)
www.islesboroislandstrust.org
· All trails blue-blazed
· Maps and rules are posted
at preserve trailheads