2002 Annual Report

MIDCOASTPenobscot Island, a landmark in Winter Harbor, is now fully protected.© SARA GRAY22 CastineCommunity members helped MCHT expand itsWitherle Woods Preserve, adding a 19-acre parcel that willensure continued access to trails and buffer them frompossible development. The wooded property also adds to thePreserve’s protected shorefrontage on Penobscot Bay.23 Isle au HautMCHT acquired a 23-acre seabird nesting island off Isleau Haut for future transfer to the U.S. Fish & WildlifeService. Little Spoon Island, which lies near severalconserved properties, willbecome part of the PetitManan NationalWildlife Refuge.Guillemots are one ofseveral bird species that neston newly conserved LittleSpoon Island off Isle au Haut.© BILL SILLIKER, JR.Maine Coast Heritage Trust 11