LGP 2024-2025 Biennial Report-digital - Flipbook - Page 6
MESSAGE FROM THE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
“We are gathering information not simply to understand what
we have inherited. We are using it to shape what comes next.”
The years 2024 and 2025 were defined by a conscious decision: to prepare the Mount Desert
Land & Garden Preserve for the responsibilities of long-term stewardship at the scale our mission
now demands.
Throughout its history, the Preserve has cared deeply and well for extraordinary places. In recent years, however,
it became clear that care alone was no longer sufficient. Stewardship, understood as informed, disciplined, and
future-facing responsibility, requires a different level of organizational readiness.
These two years were devoted to building that readiness.
Across the Preserve, we undertook deliberate, oen technical work to understand more fully what we steward and
what that stewardship truly requires. We conducted rigorous assessments of the objects, art, and artifacts in our
care, establishing clear baselines for condition, conservation needs, and risk. We confronted longstanding questions about stabilization, storage, and long-term responsibility, moving from informal knowledge to documented
understanding.
In parallel, we engaged in careful fact-finding across our buildings and infrastructure. Through targeted assessments and prioritization work, we clarified not only what needs investment, but when, why, and in what sequence—
replacing
accumulated assumptions with shared, evidence-based frameworks for decision-making.
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