A bear cub from last July (2025) has climbed up on top of the wooden gate. I guess when the people go home, the animals come out to play.
Both the bear and the porcupine seem to like to snack on the gate. The bear likes the cedar, and the porcupine likes the plywood (probably the salt in the plywood glue).
The drawings from a 2nd-grade class that participated in a field trip sponsored by the Francis Small Heritage Trust. These drawings were sent as a thank-you to the organizers.
Turkeys on Parade at Sawyer Mountain Limington Maine
Momma bear (top right) and her three cubs on John Douglas Mountain
Wildlife Collection: Bobcat with fish, young deer making a bed in the snow, and then later his mother coming by to wake him up, deer herd running. Five minutes later, you see that they were running from.
One year on the Francis Small Heritage Trust’s beaver pond.
Watch a year go by in a little over a minute in this time-lapse video. It begins on August 5, 2016, and ends on August 4, 2017. The seasons change, the beavers add to the dam, and plants grow and flower.
One of FSHT’s members, Denise N. Oliver, has created a two-minute video with original music featuring photographs and videos of FSHT properties.
This video was entered into a contest offered by the national Land Trust Alliance of which FSHT is a member.
The video below highlights the low-impact forestry workshop hosted by the Francis Small Heritage Trust. Both horse logging and cut-to-length mechanical logging are featured.
Special thanks go to videographer Silas Hagerty of Smooth Feather Productions and Jay McKay for the original musical score. Also, horse loggers John Plowden and Peter Hagerty, forester Charlie Moreno, McLucas Trucking who performed the cut-to-length logging, and Lee Burnet of Forest Works!.
Francis Small Heritage Trust, Inc. 