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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Ready for Monitoring at Battery Steele

Spring Monitoring 2021

Oceanside Conservation Trust has ownership or Easement interests in open space properties on several of the islands in western Casco Bay.  Once a year, a team from the Board of Directors monitors those interests.  We traditionally do this in May before the island communities – or the Directors! - get too busy enjoying Summer.  May 27 was the date for checking out the parcels on Peaks Island; Little Diamond, Long, College and Cliff Islands will fill out the rest of 2021’s OCT Monitoring Week.

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