This week's newsletter includes:

• Fall Social and Annual Meeting
• Shorebird Walks!
• August Naturalist Walk
• 'Nature Reads' with Kennebunk Free Library
• Nature Walk at Kennebunk Plains
• Native Plant Swap!



Read to the end to find a fun-fact plant update from the last edition!

Want to get more involved with KLT in 2023?

Visit our Volunteer Page here to let us know what kind of volunteering you'd like to do, such as Acquisition, Development or Stewardship committees, board appointments, and more!

Nature Walk with KLT!

August 5, 2023, from 10 - 11:30 a.m.

Hope Woods,

The theme is "Trees in Summer."

We are excited to have Paul Dest, director of Wells Reserve at Laudholm, as our guest guide!

• January 7 - Alewive Woods - "New Beginnings"
• February 11 – Wonderbrook Preserve. Theme: “Cold Survivors”
• March 4 – For All Forever Preserve. Theme: “Birds”
• April 1 – Oxbow Preserve. Theme: “Trees”
• May 6 – Mousam River Wildlife Sanctuary. Theme: “Vernal Pools”
• June 3 – Butler Preserve. Theme: “Water”
• July 1 – For All Forever Preserve. Theme: “Wildflowers” -
• August 5 - Hope Woods. Theme: “Trees in Summer” - Register here
• September 2 – Sea Road Preserve. Theme: “Bugs/Ferns”
• October 7 - Mousam River Wildlife Sanctuary
• November 4 – Butler Preserve. Theme: “Geology”
• December 2 – For All Forever Preserve. Theme: “Winter Weeds”

Each month, our friends at Kennebunk Free Library develop a book list that matches that month's walk theme.

Enjoy nature walk and pair it with a good book!

Take a Guided Walk of a unique ecosystem:

Kennebunk Plains

Protected Landscapes of Southern Maine: Kennebunk Plains and Wells Barrens

Thursday, August 17, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Take a walking tour of the Kennebunk Plains and learn about this unique ecosystem and the 30-plus-year effort to protect this large nature preserve and Wildlife Management Area, and its geology, plants, and animals. Find out about the role carefully controlled fire -- also known as prescribed fire -- plays in maintaining this rare ecosystem.

The walk will be led by Paul Dest, local conservationist and naturalist; Jon Bailey, Land Manager/Burn Boss for The Nature Conservancy in Maine (TNC); and Sean Campbell, Wildlife Biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (ME IFW).

The one-mile walk begins at the parking area at the Kennebunk Plains on the north side of Route 99. The guided walk is free of charge. This is one of a series of walks introducing residents and visitors to some of the protected landscapes of southern Maine.

To register for this walk and for more information, email pauldest5@gmail.com or call 207-251-9851.

The Kennebunk Plains and Wells Barrens encompasses about 3,000 protected acres and was the first funded project under the Land for Maine’s Future Program. The property includes the state’s largest sandplain grassland, pitch pine/shrub oak forests and red maple alluvial swamp forests – habitats that are rare in Northern New England. The area is home to rare animal species such as the Grasshopper Sparrow and Northern Black Racer Snake, and unusual plants, such as the globally rare Northern Blazing Star, which blooms in August. It is also the source for vast amounts of the public drinking water for the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells Water District (KKWWD). The Kennebunk Plains/Wells Barrens are owned and managed by three entities: TNC, ME IF&W, and KKWWD.

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Bring Nature Home! 

Writing the Land: Maine

This anthology of poems and photography showcases many land trusts throughout Maine.

Poems for Kennebunk Land Trust  were written by Cynthia Lozier and inspired by

Mousam River Wildlife Sanctuary.

Photos of our preserves are from local residents. 

     Listen and see the inspiration

Poet Cynthia Lozier recorded a reading of one of her poems from the book.

Link above!

Nature is Mushroomin'!

All of the rain and humidity this summer has made some perfect mushroom conditions! Head out to our different preserves and see what you can find.

Listen to mushroom experts talk foraging and identification in Maine

Read about the different types of mushrooms in Maine!

Beware! Mushrooms can pose a risk to pets and dogs when outside.

'Ghost Pipe', Wonderbrook Park



(UPDATE! Turns out, Ghost Pipe isn't a mushroom, but is a flowering plant with lack of chlorophyll!)

 King Bolete, Alewive Woods

Oyster Mushrooms, Tributary Preserve

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