Upcoming Events and Programs
For
details and updates about events and the Annual Meeting, please check
this website or contact BChris Reardon or Kay Johnson - for contact information,
click here.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Annual Meeting 2009
Saturday, July 18 at 10 AM
Waterfront Landscaping
Center for Moosehead History in Greenville, July 19th, 2009.
Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
Invasive plant patrol... and lots of fun, too.
Beaver Cove Marina, August 14, 15;, 2008
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Friends of Wilson Pond Area made a walk of the Rum Mountain easement on July 21, 2008. Here are some pictures!
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Invitation to Join
The Friends of Wilson Pond invite you to become
a member to support our mission and help us attain our goals.
Annual family membership is only $10.00 and is tax deductible!
All are welcome! Please send checks to Karen McFarland, Treasurer, at either PO Box 412, Greenville, ME 04441 (July-Oct.) or 9201 Brink Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20882 (Nov.-June). |
FAST FACTS
• Lower Wilson Pond and a portion of Upper
Wilson Pond are located in Greenville, the remaining portion of Upper
Wilson Pond is located in Bowdoin College Grant West.
• The two ponds are connected by shallow narrows know as The Thoroughfare.
• Some of Greenville's earliest settlers resided on a hill overlooking the Ponds.
• The Ponds are spring fed with deepest water about 90 feet deep.
• Salmon and lake trout are the most common game fish caught.
• In early 1900's cabins were constructed by hauling building materials across the ice in winter.
• Much of the land around the ponds is and has historically been owned by paper companies.
• Logging operations still continue around the Ponds. |
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