Cabin Fever Reliever
Friends will host a potluck supper and benefit performance by singer, songwriter and environmental educator Curt Carter on Friday, Feb. 19 at the FUW Education Center, 93 Main St. in Unity. Potluck at 6 p.m. with music to follow at 7 p.m. Suggested donation is $5/person; children 12 and under admitted free.

Calendar Clearance
We have just a few 2010 calendars left, and they are now on sale for just $5! These calendars, featuring local photography and delicious recipes from FUW member Melissa Bastien, provide a great way to keep up with Friends throughout the year. Stop in and buy one today.

In 2004, a group of individuals and organizations incorporated as the Friends of Unity Wetlands (FUW) to protect and conserve the natural, cultural and economic values of the Unity Wetlands. FUW recognizes that the 45,000-acre Unity Wetlands landscape is a unique and significant resource, a combination of wild and working lands rich in biodiversity, scenic beauty, and economic value, which greatly enhances the quality of life of the local community.

The Unity Wetlands includes a large expanse of the wetlands and uplands centered on Unity Township, extending to Unity Pond and west to the Sebasticook River, covering more than 65 square miles. It includes portions of the towns of Albion, Benton, Burnham, Clinton, Freedom, Troy, Unity Plantation and Unity.

The area hosts an array of unique natural features. Several rare species and habitats, from wood turtles to wild garlic, find their home in the Unity Wetlands.

The area represents one of the largest remaining unfragmented blocks of land in central Maine providing a promising opportunity not only for conservation of the area’s rarest ecological gems, but also for maintaining wide-ranging common species, from black bear to bobcat, that are becoming increasingly rare in more developed landscapes in southern Maine.

Finally, the outstanding rural condition of the complex offers numerous social and cultural benefits to local and surrounding populations by providing a mainly farmland and working forest landscape that is largely open to traditional recreational activities such as hunting, trapping, fishing, boating and hiking.

FUW seeks to maintain biological diversity, ecological values, recreational values, traditional land uses and the rural character of this landscape through collaborative efforts with landowners, municipalities and partnering organizations. Our focus is on land conservation and outreach and education as well as information gathering.

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