Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation Project Areas

Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation’s primary mission is to protect scarce, high value wildlife habitat in the heart of the Downeast Coast of Maine.  Our emphasis is on properties with intertidal or freshwater wetlands that are ideal habitat for waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds and woodcock and have a generous upland buffer to their wetlands.

We acquire and manage properties in four Project Areas relatively close to our base of operations in Addison:

• Long Cove in Addison’s Pleasant Bay
  

• Lily Pond Meadows inland between Long Cove and Wohoa Bay
  

• Crowley Island in Addison’s Indian River estuary
  

• Mason Bay straddling the Jonesboro/
  Jonesport town lines

Each of these Project Areas is located in or very near one of the estuaries selected by the Heads of the Estuaries Partnership for concentrated conservation work.  PRWF has already protected 775 acres and more than 3½ miles of coastal frontage of great importance for wildlife and the public in these Project Areas.  By the end of 2009 we expect to have increased our holdings to include 1,250 acres of high value uplands, freshwater wetlands and intertidal habitat and 6½ miles of shoreline.