Threshold To Maine RC&D
Balancing Resource Use with Conservation since 1970.

The purpose of the Threshold To Maine RC&D Area, Inc. is to assist communities in York, Cumberland, Oxford, and Franklin Counties improve their skills and commitment to balancing social, economic, and ecological issues around natural resource use.  In partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Threshold To Maine develops and implements a five year plan of work called an Area Plan.  The Vision, Mission and Goals below are from our current Area Plan.  

VISION

To position natural resource based industries as key economic development centers for southern and western Maine communities, expanding the number of small natural resource based businesses contributing to local, regional, state, national, and international economies.

  MISSION

 Threshold to Maine RC&D Area, Inc. will help individuals and communities pursue natural resource based opportunities in southern and western Maine by providing technical assistance to promote social improvement, economic development, and environmental protection.

 GOAL #1

Working with partnering organizations, Threshold To Maine will promote sound land conservation measures, helping to ensure a sustainable resource base for southern and western Maine by 2010.

GOAL #2

 By 2010, Threshold To Maine RC&D Area will assist communities and partnering organizations address their priority water management issues, helping to improve both the water quality and water quantity measures for the region.

GOAL #3

By 2010, Threshold To Maine will leverage technical and financial resources necessary to promote sound land management by encouraging natural resource based industries and communities to develop sustainable community and economic development programs.

GOAL #4

Threshold To Maine, working with partnering state, federal, and non-profit organizations, will provide support for effective community development aimed at increasing the vitality of communities in the region, helping them realize sound social and economic growth by 2010.

GOAL #5

 Yearly, carry out activities and deliver programs that protect Civil Rights and promote diversity.

Background

The Threshold To Maine Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Area, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation, established under state of Maine law, with the purpose of fostering and advocating for natural resource protection through community restoration. Our intent is to provide information, education, and support to community residents in York, Cumberland, Oxford, and Franklin Counties, enabling them to solve natural resource problems. Programs are locally initiated, sponsored, and directed. Residents work to improve their communities through sound resource management, accelerated economic development, and improvements in the standard of living where adverse conditions exist.

However we describe RC&D, the basic resource continues to be the people involved and motivated to create change.  That change is embodied in the vision of a strong agriculture industry in southern and western Maine.  

The RC&D Council, with its sponsors and local citizens, have identified a future capable of supporting a balance between the utilization and conservation of our natural resources. This Web Site strives to provide information to expand the leadership ability and community capacity necessary to draw together competing interests in order to achieve compromise, mutual understanding, and the discovery of common ground on all natural resource issues.

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