Past Projects
Since its launch in 2008, the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program (MNRCP) has awarded over $30 million in competitive grants to non-profit groups, municipalities and public agencies to help restore, enhance and preserve wetlands and other important habitats at 170 project sites across Maine. This section provides a look at past projects that have been funded.
| Project Title | Project Sponsor | Funding Round/Year | MNRCP Funds Awarded |
MNRCP Region |
Project Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ogunquit Headwater Wetlands | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2022 | $310,000 | Southern Maine | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Norton Brook to Mill Creek Phase I | Falmouth Land Trust | 2019 | $200,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Hansen Pond | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2017 | $407,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Walnut Hill II | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2012 | $260,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Old Boston Farm | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2019 | $860,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Garey Mill Road Wetlands | York Land Trust | 2017 | $140,500 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Little River Estuary | United States Fish and Wildlife Service | 2021 | $259,838 | Southern Maine | Restoration/Enhancement | |
| Pump Box Brook I - Coley Trafton | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2019 | $151,700 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Walnut Hill IV-Roberts | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2017 | $129,375 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Blandings Park Wildlife Sanctuary Addition | Blandings Park Wildlife Sanctuary | 2018 | $40,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Fixing Furbish Phase I | Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, USFWS | 2018 | $134,550 | Southern Maine | Tidal marsh restoration | |
| Littlefield Woods | Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust | 2020 | $69,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Josias Woods | York Land Trust | 2018 | $430,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Perley Pond/Northwest River | Loon Echo Land Trust | 2013 | $136,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Steele Forest Addition | Kennebunkport Conservation Trust | 2010 | $75,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Ann Thurlow Forest | Western Foothills Land Trust | 2020 | $840,500 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Salmon Falls Wetlands - Tuckahoe | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2013 | $90,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Boulter Pond Wetlands | York Land Trust, Inc. | 2011 | $244,260 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Charles Pond Acquisition | Greater Lovell Land Trust | 2020 | $120,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Deering Watershed Wetlands | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2020 | $444,700 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Crooked River - Robie Meadows | Western Foothills Land Trust | 2011 | $69,500 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Hoopers Brook | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2020 | $138,350 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Tiger Hill Forest | The Trust for Public Land/Loon Echo Land Trust | 2018 | $480,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Willow Brook Culvert Replacement | Town of Cape Elizabeth | 2020 | $343,281 | Southern Maine | Culvert replacement tidal flow enhancement | |
| Blandings Turtle Incubator (Walnut Hill) | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2014 | $115,350 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition |