Our Mission

MEACC builds the capacity of Maine communities to protect and preserve their natural resources and quality places.

Our Goal

Every Maine community has an active, effective conservation commission.

Our Objectives

1. Build the capacity of existing conservation commissions to work effectively in their communities.

2. Significantly expand the number of Maine communities that have functioning conservation commissions.

3. Redefine the mission and purpose of conservation commissions in state statute so the legal authorization and their stated role and purpose is congruent with the work being done by local commissions.

MEACC is hoping to expand the number of conservation commissions in western Maine in the coming year (Oxford, Franklin, Somerset and Androscoggin counties). MEACC executive director Bob Shafto, (L-R), Marcel Polak, Woodstock CC chair and MEACC staffer, Tom Henderson, executive director of the Gr. Lovell Land Trust, and Tanya Swain, executive director of the Western Mt. Alliance and MEACC board member, met in Farmington on July 10th to plan strategies for doing that. Also helping, but not pictured, is Jonathan LaBonte, executive director of the Androscoggin Land Trust.

Events

• 9/9/2008
  MEACC Board of Directors meeting,
  Manchester, 9:30 - 1:30
  

News

• 8/21/2008
  The Wayne Conservation Commission use their town meeting as an opportunity to communicate to citizens about their work. Here's the handout every Wayne town meeting attendee got this year.
  
  
• 8/15/2008
  Click here for MEACC's 2008 Annual Report
  
  
• 8/7/2008
  The St. George Conservation Commission is sponsoring an community energy independence day and alternative energy fair on August 17th that looks very exciting. Read about it here.
  
  
• 5/29/2008
  MEACC has received grant awards from the Orchard Foundation for $3,000 and the Davis Conservation Foundation for $5,000. Both are greatly appreciated and will help support the Association's work in the coming year.
  
  
• 5/7/2008
  MEACC By-laws adopted, Directors elected at the 2008 Annual Meeting. Click here for minutes of that meeting.
  
  
• 3/27/2008
  To the South, Conservation is Booming. Read about it
  here.