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 2,300 acres in our region and we hold easements on sixteen properties covering over 1,100 acres.

Lands Protected By Bear-Paw Conservation Easements

Name	Town	Public Access Provision		Acreage
Anderson	Strafford			30
Auger	Strafford			96
Bacon	Nottingham	Yes		50
Bock	Nottingham			16
Brownell	Strafford			47
Clifford	Deerfield	Yes		82
Colwell	Strafford			150
Comte	Nottingham	Yes		132
Cramer	Raymond			158
Cruikshank	Deerfield			26
Cumings	Deerfield			17
Doane / Schorr	Deerfield			70
Lindsey	Candia			30
Rooney	Strafford/Northwood			28
Rosenfield/Mallette	Deerfield/Nottingham	Yes		85
Williams	Deerfield			87
Willoughby	Deerfield			28
Total				1,135