Welcome to Nature Fix Fridays!
Kennebunk Land Trust brings the flora, fauna, and beauty of our preserves right to your inbox.

Check out upcoming events and activities!

We'll see you on the trail.

For previous editions, click here!

This week's newsletter includes:


  • Save the Chestnut!
  • Nature's Canvas: Unveiled - Community Art Auction and Gathering
  • Plant Walk!
  • September Naturalist Walk
  • 'Nature Reads' with Kennebunk Free Library
  • Branch Brook Watershed Walk


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!

Kennebunk Land Trust is looking for a special volunteer to support the American Chestnut trees growing in For All Forever Preserve.

Now, our trees don't look like the one pictured above yet, but we want them to!


In 2020, KLT partnered with the Environmental Studies program at UNE and professor Tom Klak 's lab to plant three American Chestnut trees in For All Forever Preserve. This was a part of an ongoing effort to bring back the tree species that went functionally extinct due to blight at the turn of the century.


Kennebunk Land Trust is looking for a volunteer to provide basic care for the trees to help them thrive into maturity.


Tasks may include:

  • Watering the trees during particularly dry spells
  • Weeding and removing competing plants growing nearby
  • Apply soil amendments as needed
  • If desired, continue as a volunteer Chestnut Liaison to help plant more trees in future as the American Chestnut Foundation releases their blight-tolerant tree


Please fill out our Volunteer Interest form below and indicate why you want to be our Chestnut volunteer.

Be our Chestnut Volunteer!

Find more information on the work to bring back the American Chestnut tree by visiting the American Chestnut Foundation.


Watch a short video (with Dolly Parton!) on their work to restore the tree here.

Save the Dates!

We are excited to share the beauty of our preserves, and provide an opportunity to take a piece of them home!


The art silent auction and gathering will take place at The Elective on September 28, from 5 - 7p.m.


The open gathering will have a cash bar and appetizers to enjoy while meeting the artists and perusing art pieces.

More information here!

Special Plant Walk Announcement!

KLT and Native Haunts Nursery have teamed up to offer a unique take on a plant ID walk.


Join Shawn Jalbert as he askes 'What's in a name?" and explains how the names and word choices of our local flora have shaped our perspective of them.

Register for the Plant Walk today! 

Nature Walk with KLT!

September 2, 2023, from 10 - 11:30 a.m.

Sea Road Preserve

The theme is "BUGS!"

Click here to register for September! 



Mark your calendar for the monthly

nature walks!

  • 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” -
  • September 2 – Sea Road Preserve. Theme: “Bugs" Register here
  • 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!

Branch Brook Nature Walk!

“Protected Landscapes of Southern Maine:

Branch Brook Watershed”

September 21 at 5:30 - 7:00p.m.

Free to the public


An upcoming walk offered by the Branch Brook Watershed Coalition, provides an opportunity for the public to learn about a major habitat restoration project and ongoing efforts to conserve land within the Branch Brook Watershed.


The one-mile walk begins on the Maguire Road on the Kennebunk Plains.

A major emphasis of this walk will be learning about the severe erosion caused by off-road vehicles along a powerline that crosses Branch Brook and the efforts by Central Maine Power (CMP) to restore the area and its vital habitats. Participants will view the restored area up close and they will learn about the watershed, its plants and animals, and the threats posed to water quality due to erosion and other human activities.


The walk will be led by Paul Dest, Executive Director of the Wells Reserve at Laudholm; Justin Richardson of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Wells Water District (KKWWD); and Bill Coggin, Environmental Manager for CMP

Branch Brook Watershed is one of the most pristine watersheds in southern Maine. Located in Wells, Kennebunk, and Sanford, it encompasses 8,112 acres and provides drinking water to over 100,000 residents and visitors annually and provides habitat for a diversity of species. Land within the watershed has been protected by numerous organizations, including Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge to KKWWD, The Nature Conservancy, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Wells Reserve. Ongoing land protection efforts continue.


To register for this walk and for more information and about the meeting location, email pdest@wellsnerr.org or call 207-251-9851.

Gift memberships are here!

Do good with your gifts!


Show your loved ones what you care about with Kennebunk Land Trust

Gift Memberships!


These packages include a range of goodies to welcome a new member and share with them all we have to offer. If you're looking for a special and unique gift that does some good, give your loved one a Kennebunk Land Trust

Gift Membership today.



You can give the package yourself, or have it mailed directly to the recipient. Visit our Shop KLT Page for more information and purchase yours today!


Gift the Gift of Nature!
Gift the Gift of Nature!


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. 

More Information + Order your copy here

     Listen and see the inspiration


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

Link above!

More Information + Order Here

Fundraise for KLT with CLYNK!

You don't even had to have an account! Simply drop off your returnable cans and bottles with the KLT Clynk bag to at your local Hannaford store.

Pick up CLYNK bags at our 6 Brown Street office, or at any KLT event.


You can also donate directly via your existing account by clicking DONATE and choosing KLT. 

Become a monthly donor!

Join our Evergreen Circle - These are monthly, recurring memberships at the amount of your choosing.


Evergreen Circle Member’s easily guarantee their support of KLT’s mission all year long.


We are a member-powered organization! Become a Member today.

Renew your membership today!


Annual renewal reminders are sent via email and snail mail. Contact us to check your status, or submit your membership today.


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