Land Protected by Bear-Paw

Bear-Paw's primary focus is to identify landowners interested in land protection and to assist them in accomplishing their land conservation goals through the use of reliable, voluntary techniques such as conservation easements. Bear-Paw provides impartial, technical assistance to landowners and often serves as an intermediary between landowners, town officials, and other conservation partners (conservation organizations, grant programs, etc.).

Bear-Paw works with our member towns to promote conservation planning, to identify valuable natural resource areas, to expand protected land, and to locate funding sources for land conservation projects. We also encourage member towns to provide funding for conservation projects in their municipalities through a variety of ways (land use change taxes, warrant articles, bonds, etc.).

With our project partners, Bear-Paw has helped protect over 2,100 acres in our region and we hold easements on thirteen properties covering almost 1,000 acres.

Lands Protected By Bear-Paw Conservation Easements

Name	Town	Public Access Provision		Acreage
Auger	Strafford			96
Bacon	Nottingham	Yes		50
Bock	Nottingham			16
Brownell	Strafford			47
Colwell	Strafford			150
Comte	Nottingham	Yes		132
Cramer	Raymond			158
Cumings	Deerfield			17
Doane / Schorr	Deerfield			70
Lindsey	Candia			30
Rosenfield /	Deerfield /
Mallette	Nottingham	Yes		85
Williams	Deerfield			87
Willoughby	Deerfield			28
Total				967