LEEDS — The Kennebec Land Trust will host students and teachers from six area schools at Governor Kenneth Curtis’ childhood home, the trust’s 360-acre Curtis Homestead Conservation Area, on Wednesday through Friday, Oct. 24-26, for KLT’s fourth annual sustainable forestry education program.
KLT’s forestry education program offers a series of three demonstrations that are focused on forest stewardship, sustainable forestry, successful land management and animal habitat. Students will learn about the importance of Maine’s forests, timber harvesting and wildlife habitat.
Maine Forest Service District Forester Shane Duigan, Nat and Bruce Bell, logger and sawyer; and Lisa Kane, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife natural science educator, will be leading the programs. Students will watch timber harvesting and saw mill demonstrations, and Kane will present “Animal’s Amazing Adaptations,” which focuses on the ‘equipment’ different animals have to do their jobs in their habitats.
Contact the KLT office at 377-2848 for more information.
The Curtis Homestead Conservation Area is on the Bog Road in Leeds. From Route 202 in Monmouth, go west on the Bog Road. The Curtis Homestead parking area is about 1.5 miles on the right.
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- The Kennebec Land Trust will hold its fourth annual sustainable forestry education program at the Curtis Homestead Conservation Area, on Wednesday through Friday, Oct. 24-26.
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