Protecting Land, Water, and Wildlife Habitats

Blue Hill Heritage Trust is a non-profit land conservation organization that protects land, water, and wildlife habitat on the greater Blue Hill Peninsula and works with and educates the community on its mission. ​

While interning with Blue Hill Heritage Trust (BHHT) I spent a lot of time stewarding the land. I used tools to maintain and build trails, monitored land easements and created legal documents for new easements, helped to inventory trees in forest plots, and monitored wetland species regrowth. I worked in development; I wrote a grant for an accessible trail that will be built this fall and helped to create donor events. And I worked in outreach; I helped with many outreach events and my favorites were teaching about nature at summer camps and designing our own event which was a full moon hike up a mountain.

I gained many new skills in each of these areas from my time at BHHT, as well as a Wilderness First Aid certification and attending chainsaw training. I will use these skills for the rest of my life, and I can’t imagine where else I would have been able to do this.​ I learned so much about what I can do and who I want to be during this internship, and I’m excited to continue this work in my studies at Bowdoin.

Internship funded by the Preston Public Interest Career fund​.