Description
Guided Walks for Two of Four Limited Access Properties!
KLT?s volunteer land stewards have access to limited access properties for monitoring and other stewardship tasks. On four different days in 2021 you and a guest will join a KLT volunteer land steward with many hours of experience on four different properties as your guide and walk on these properties currently not available to the public because access is across private property. You will schedule your four visits (each 1-2 hours long) during 2021 with the volunteer land steward guide. Winter visits on snowshoes or xc-skis can be arranged, otherwise normal hiking shoes are fine the rest of the year.
Since these four limited access properties do not have regularly maintained trails, your KLT volunteer land steward guide will show you how to navigate such terrain with ease and confidence while hopefully helping you to see the outdoors in a different way.
About Clayton Smith, your friendly guide:
Besides being a KLT volunteer land steward for many years, your guide is a life long outdoor person and an experienced land navigator. He was a national and international completive orienteer and was an alternate on the US team to the 1976 World Orienteering Championships in Great Britain. While serving in the US Army, he set a few land navigation course records and trained small units and individuals how to land navigate using orienteering skills. You could say he is very comfortable walking/snowshoeing, skiing, or running cross-country and continues to do so as one of his many outdoor activities for fun and pleasure.
The four limited access property visits are:
Cutts
22 acres donated to KLT by former Board Member Bill Cutts. This property lies within the Spruce Creek watershed and features an upland forest, wetlands, and part of an old millpond.
Furbish
This 30 acres preserve in the heart of the Brave Boat Harbor watershed conserves oak and hemlock forests and portions of a large wetland on either side of the old York Harbor & Beach Railroad alignment. The old railroad bed is the primary walking path on this property along with several old woods paths.
Clayton Lane
8.5 acres donated to KLT in 2013 by Josh Abott and James Scully. The land abuts the backwoods of Rustlewood Farm to the northwest. It consists of an older upland forest and brushy young forested wetlands that is a portion of an old gravel pit ? perfect habitat for the woodcock, endangered New England Cottontail rabbit, and the Maine endangered Blanding?s Turtle.
Andrews Preserve
84 acres was donated to KLT in 2019 by the Andrews Family. The northern part of this preserve is a large wetland which is the headwaters for the Cutts Ridge Brook tributary to the York River. The rest of the preserve has numerous vernal pools and a series of long shallow ridges and valley wetlands left by receding glaciers.