NHCP Projects
Since it was founded in 1996, North Haven Conservation Partners has helped to permanently protect more than 120 acres of land, including the following properties:
Burnt Island
This 74-acre island is owned and managed by the Town of North Haven, which received it as a gift from the Minot family. North Haven Conservation Partners was granted a conservation easement on the property by theTown in 2000.
The Mullen's Head Park Commission manages the island as a Town park. NHCP raised an endowment to fund stewardship of the island consistent with the easement terms, including maintenance of pedestrian trails and a dock, to enhance public access. At low tide, the island is accessible by foot from Indian Point. There is also a dock at the western end of the island where boats can land in the summer season. A pedestrian trail circles the entire island. The island's diverse forests and shoreline provide habitat for small mammals, deer, migratory birds, ospreys and eagles. Its extensive tidal flats provide habitat for shorebirds as well as clams and mussels.
Cabot Fields
Owned by the Cabot family, the fields on either side of the Crabtree Point Road overlooking Pulpit and Southern Harbors are protected by a conservation easement granted to NHCP in 2002.
Under the terms of this easement, these 26 open acres will never be built upon, may support future farming activities, and will forever provide the same exceptionally scenic views enjoyed by all who pass by those fields today. Pedestrian access is also available through the eastern field to Southern Harbor, and along that shoreline.
Mill Stream Property
This 22-acre parcel on the east side of the Mill Stream is owned by North Haven Conservation Partners. The John D. Rockefeller family generously gave this outstanding property to NHCP in 2001, as a wildlife preserve.
This shorefront property, between the Middle Road and the Mill Stream, will continue to help protect water quality at the Mill Stream as well as provide valuable habitat to wildlife at the head of Pulpit Harbor. Mostly wooded, the property also includes two open fields at its northern end.
Pulpit Harbor Bridge Property
This 1.25-acre property is owned by North Haven Conservation Partners and maintained as conservation land with public access for picnics or peaceful contemplation. Edward and Lansing Lamont generously gave this property to NHCP in 2003.
The property is located at the intersection of Pulpit Harbor Road and North Shore Road, at the first Pulpit Harbor Bridge. There is a pull-out for parking for one or two cars and a short path leads up to a clearing, from which visitors can look out at Pulpit Harbor or up the Mill Stream.
Miner Property
This 9 acre parcel on the North Shore Road, looking out at Camden Hills, is owned by Ranny and Beth Miner. At the end of 2007, the Miners donated a conservation easement on this property which permanently protects the view one sees from the North Shore Road.
As part of their gift, the Miners agreed to include public access across the property to their shoreline. The Miners land shares its northeastern boundary with the fields of the Pettit property, which are already protected by a view easement held by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. When combined with the Pettit easement, the Miner easement completes the view protection across almost 15 acres of fields under terms that prohibit new houses and require the landowners to mow the land annually.
North Shore Road Property (Heap)
This 31 acre parcel along the North Shore Road is owned by David and Margo Heap. At the end of 2007, the Heaps donated a conservation easement on undeveloped land along both sides of the North Shore Road with shore frontage on the West Penobscot Bay.
The easement provides pedestrian public access along a footpath leading from the North Shore Road to the shore. This easement protects forever the natural and undeveloped character of their land, including the scenic character of its fields, forests, wetlands, and shore frontage.
Cubby Hole Property
This 11 acre property is owned by Jamie Carpenter and Toshiko Mori. North Haven Conservation Partners was granted a conservation easement on the property in 2009.
Under the terms of the easement, the view of the Cubby Hole from the South Shore Road will always remain open and for the first time there will be a pedestrian footpath providing formal access from the South Shore Road to the Cubby Hole, allowing for the launching of hand-carried small watercraft. There is a designated parking area for the footpath.
Charlie Brown's Pond Easements
In 2009 Beth Lamont, Juliet Lamont and Phil Price donated a conservation easement to North Haven Conservation Partners for their properties along the North Shore Road including Charlie Brown's Pond. The 2 easements combined protect a total of 25 acres which in combination with the Heap property easement donated in 2008 creates a 56 acre block of protected land stretching from the Mill Stream, across the North Shore Road to Penobscot Bay. Their protected land can be viewed from the Middle Road across the field on property owned by NHCP.
