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• Volunteers Needed for Medomak Estuary Water Quality Monitoring

• Tenney Property in Waldoboro Conserved
• DIY Network Donates Peters Pond Parcel

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Volunteers Needed for Medomak Estuary Water Quality Monitoring

MVLT is working with the Georges River Tidewater Association to expand water quality monitoring across Muscongus Bay into the Medomak River estuary. The success of the monitoring program depends on the efforts of our volunteers. Becoming a volunteer is easy, requires no special background, and anyone over the age of 16 can participate.

With funding from the Maine Coastal Program, GRTA provides volunteers with training and equipment to sample water quality at five locations on the Medomak estuary. Volunteers visit their Medomak sites once a month in April, May, June and October and twice a month in July, August and September and gather vital data that serves as indicators of the estuary’s health. To get involved, make new friends and make a difference in your community, please contact Jackie at volmvlt@midcoast.com or 832-5570 or visit www.georgesrivertidewater.org.

Tenney Property in Waldoboro Conserved
Waldoboro, Maine

Thirty acres of wooded land between Friendship Road and Finntown Road in Waldoboro were placed under conservation easement with the Medomak Valley Land Trust (MVLT) in December. The land will remain protected in perpetuity, ensuring its use as habitat and sustainably managed forestland, and preventing future development.

The newly protected property conserves frontage on several streams, including Slaigo Brook which flows into the Medomak River at Sampson Cove in Waldoboro. Conservation of the property helps protect the health of the river and its fishing industries and protects habitat for large mammals and the diverse bird life of the area.

The property is near MVLT's Burkett Mill Preserve and lies within Three Brooks Forest, the largest roadless area on a coastal peninsula between the Camden Hills and York. Over 900 acres in Three Brooks Forest are now protected.

"MVLT is extremely grateful to David Tenney for his generosity and foresight in protecting this important place," said Liz Petruska, MVLT's executive director.

DIY Network Donates Peters Pond Parcel
Waldoboro, Maine

DIY Network, the go-to destination for home improvement television, is proud to announce the donation of 30 acres of wooded land to the Medomak Valley Land Trust (MVLT) in Waldoboro, Maine. The donated parcel, which includes frontage on Peters Pond, is a portion of a 51-acre property purchased last year by DIY Network for the sixth season of its popular interactive home building series, Blog Cabin.

When asked why the cable network decided to donate more than half of its recently acquired land, Steven Lerner, DIY Network’s vice president of programming, said, “The farmhouse and its surrounding property had been with the same family for centuries. We wanted to preserve its incredible openness and beauty for future generations.”

The property, previously owned for generations by the Robie family, is a forested strip that stretches between Dutch Neck and Gross Neck Roads and abuts 18 acres that are protected with a conservation easement held by MVLT.  Together, the properties protect close to 1,000 feet of frontage on Peters Pond, a 12-acre pond that is distinguished from others in the watershed because of its depth (60 feet), steep granite cliffs, high shoreline, and completely undeveloped watershed.

“We have been working with members of the community to find a way to protect it since the Robie property first came on the market in 2007,” said Liz Petruska, MVLT’s executive director.  “When we heard about Blog Cabin, we contacted DIY Network to discuss potential conservation options. Thanks to their generosity, this important property will be permanently protected.”

“The Robie Farm is the last of the original land grants on Dutch Neck that has not been sub-divided or developed over the centuries,” said Eric Stark, a nearby Blog Cabin neighbor whose property is also conserved.  “Its presence reminds us of what life used to look like in Maine. The relationship between the land, the people, the farms that sustained them, and the waters they harvested for fish, clams, oysters and lobsters is still visible on this property. It is very different than the relationship we have to these things today.”

Originally part of a working farm nestled along the scenic Medomak River, DIY Network and its all-star team of renovation experts are committed to preserving the character and surrounding property of this year’s Blog Cabin – which resides on the remaining 21 acres – by transforming the 1884 Cape style, four bedroom, 2.5-bath, 2,500 sq. ft. farmhouse into the ultimate vacation home. Construction on the previously-owned Robie farmhouse began this winter and continues through the spring with input every step of the way from online fans. In addition to voting online for the home’s unique renovation elements, viewers can enter for a chance to win it from Monday, Aug. 13 to Sunday, Sept. 28. They can also view the renovation in its entirety during DIY Network’s sixth season of Blog Cabin, which premieres on Thursday, Aug. 16 at 9 p.m. ET.

DIY Network’s 2012 Blog Cabin is being built in cooperation with General Motors LLC, Lumber Liquidators, Inc., The Sherwin-Williams Company, Quicken Loans, James Hardie Building Products, Trex Company, Inc., GAF, GE Appliances, Kohler Co., Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. and Liberty Mutual Insurance.. For more information on DIY Network’s Blog Cabin, and to participate in a blog about the construction and to vote on design elements of the 2012 cabin, visit DIYNetwork.com/BlogCabin.