Maine Association of Conservation Districts News

The Maine Association of Conservation Districts (MACD) Executive Committee has selected a new executive director to work of behalf of Maine’s sixteen soil and water conservation districts. MACD President Daniel Labrie announced that MACD Treasurer Thomas Gordon of Portland will become the association’s executive director as of August 18, 2009. Long-time executive director Bill Bell [...]

In June, York County Soil & Water Conservation District (YCSWCD) in Springvale, ME was awarded funding by the Davis Conservation Foundation for the 2009 York County Invasive Aquatic Species Project (YCIASP). Major goals of the project are to encourage and train volunteers to survey waterbodies in York County for invasive aquatic plants (IAP) and to [...]

Skowhegan – The Maine Forest Service in cooperation with the Somerset County Soil and Water Conservation District will be holding an invasive plant identification and control workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 from 8:00 am – 12:00 noon, at Lake George Regional Park in Skowhegan.
This training will help participants identify common upland invasive plants common [...]