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We're Hiring!

Paid Summer Internship Opportunity

Somerset Woods Trustees (SWT) and Pierce Pond Watershed Trust (PPWT) seek a summer intern to support our conservation and stewardship activity in Somerset County. This shared internship offers the opportunity to experience and support land trust activity in both a remote landscape and within a more urban area.   Read the full description below and use the QR code to apply through Maine Coast Heritage Coast.

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Who We Are

Our Trustees

Our Executive Director

Our Executive Director

Somerset Woods Trustees is a nonprofit 501c3 organization.  We are governed by a 12-member board of directors recruited from our community.  


Jack Gibson, President

Ernie Hilton, Vice President

Davida Barter, Secretary

Greg Dore, Treasurer

Ann Dorney

Kate Drummond

Patty Hager

Eric Lahti

Sarah Bigney McCabe

Darryll White

Chris Young


Our Trustees

Our Executive Director

Our Executive Director

Our Executive Director

Jennifer Brockway, Executive Director   


Jennifer has worked with Somerset Woods Trustees since 2020, first through her consulting business and, since August 2022, as full-time executive director.  Jennifer has worked in Maine's conservation and restoration community since returning to Maine in 2005. She lives in Troy with her husband and two children.


Newsletters & Mission

Newsletters & Mission

Newsletters & Mission


MIssion

The mission of the Somerset Woods Trustees is to protect lands in Somerset County, Maine, that have significant natural or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

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Our History, In Brief

Newsletters & Mission

Newsletters & Mission

Louise H. Coburn

Somerset Woods Trustees (SWT) was formed in 1927 and is likely the oldest land trust in Maine. Louise Helen Coburn (1856-1949) of Skowhegan, botanist, historian, poet, author, philanthropist and visionary, initiated the Somerset Woods Trustees and was its first president. A board having a maximum of 12 volunteer directors governs the SWT. The Charter of the Somerset Woods Trustees, its enabling legislation, as amended, states the purpose of the organization is to acquire, hold, manage, arrange, maintain, tracts of land the organization may be able to acquire, alone or in cooperation with others, in Somerset County. In carrying forward this purpose, the mission of the Somerset Woods Trustees is to protect lands which have significant natural or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit. Where possible, the Trustees open those lands to the public under suitable regulations. The Somerset Woods Trustees is a 501(c)(3) organization and any donations are therefore tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Now You Know: Skowhegan Gateway

Community TV11's Now You Know with Chris Perkins explores the early conservation activity of Somerset Woods Trustees 

Why We Love Maine

Voices are  "Clinton"  Bill Townsend  and Jack Gibson



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