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Inside the Magalloway Project: 78,000 Acres of Maine Land and Water
November 19, 2025
Repost from All Points Fly Shop + Outfitter
Written by Josh Thelin
I recently attended a webinar that discussed a new and ongoing conservation collaboration between The Nature Conservancy in Maine (TNC), Forest Society of Maine (FSM), Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust (RLHT), and Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT). What drew me to learn more was not only understanding the importance of this area, but also the project’s historic size and effort. The Magalloway Project is an effort to conserve some of the most ecologically and environmentally important land in Maine. Not only that, but when conserved, it will connect roughly 500,000 acres of contiguous conserved land, a historic accomplishment for the region.
The project itself contains 78,000 acres in western Maine’s Rangeley Region. This includes 170 miltes of rivers and streams and over 2,400 acres of wetlands and lakes. If successful, it will permanently project this area. For us fly anglers in Maine, especially those of us that love to fish for native/wild brook trout and landlocked salmon, the Magalloway watershed is one of the last water systems in the country that is capable of sustaining these populations of fish with future climate issues in mind.
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Watch the webinar referenced in this post: