Watersheds Blog
(Rangeley, Maine – September 20, 2024) – Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust funds summer conservation and restoration projects with the help of a “Giving While Living” Grant from the Woodard & Curran Foundation
In Fall 2023, employee donors of Woodard & Curran, Inc. nominated 35 environmental nonprofits. In December, the Foundation announced the awarding of ten $10,000 Giving While Living Grants — a total of $100,000! You can see the list of recipients here.
“This grant was spent to support operations in one of the most pivotal years in our organization’s history,” said David Miller, Executive Director of the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust. “In June, we signed an option with three partner organizations for one of the largest and most ecologically important conservation projects in recent Maine history (we will be announcing it in January). As these organizational milestones continue, grant funding from local foundations like Woodard & Curran is essential to our ongoing success.”
In addition, RLHT continued critical restoration of the Kennebago River, one of the most important wild, native brook trout streams in the United States, and leveraged a $2.4M NRCS grant to expand that work. “In August we hosted a visit to the Kennebago by our congressional delegation which resulted in an invitation to submit a Congressionally Delegated Spending proposal to extend our restoration work beyond the Kennebago,” said Miller.
This summer RLHT purchased the Mingo Springs Lupine and Birding Trail, adding 100 acres of conservation land that serves as a critical meadow and edge habitat for migratory and boreal birds within Rangeley. RLHT hosted the annual Rangeley Birding Festival, drawing bird enthusiasts from all over the country.
“The Woodard & Curran Foundation’s unexpected grant contributed to all of this work and we thank all of the employee-donors at Woodard & Curran for their vision and generosity,” praised Miller. Learn more about the Woodard & Curran Foundation’s mission to support organizations working to protect our water and environment.
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