Monitoring Camera post on Cliff Island

Climate Change Observatory Network

A Climate Change Observatory (CCO) site crowdsources photos to create a time lapse video that helps monitor and document environmental changes that occur over time at a specific location. People are invited to participate by locating a CCO site, placing their mobile device on the photo bracket, taking a photo and uploading it via email. Community members, volunteers, land stewards and people just like you, help monitor and document environmental changes over time.

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Amanda Beal speaking at the OCT 2021 Annual Meeting

2021 Annual Meeting & Video

OCT's 2021 Annual Meeting took place at The Meadows on Cliff Island, on a gorgeous October day. Amanda Beal, Commissioner of Agriculture Conservation and Forestry addressed the group.

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The Meadow on Cliff Island

The Meadow

The Meadow on Cliff Island is now legally preserved forever as a conservation property of great benefit for both Island residents and visitors, today and in perpetuity. A Conservation Easement has been donated by its new owner, Cliff Island Corporation for Athletics, Conservation and Education (ACE), to Oceanside Conservation Trust of Casco Bay (OCT) early in 2021. The Meadow’s eleven acres have a long and interesting history as a resource on Cliff.  For much of the past century, it has been stewarded and actively cared for by two individual, private owners; in 2020, however, ownership passed over to the long-standing Cliff nonprofit, ACE.  ACE and OCT have now collaborated on the preservation of four of the Island’s most well-loved open space properties.

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