Welcome
The Acton-Shapleigh Youth Conservation Corps (ASYCC), was founded in 2001, and is committed to protecting the waterways within Mousam Lake and Square Pond Watershed.
This is achieved by providing education, community outreach, courtesy boat inspections, technical assistance, and the installation of effective erosion control practices to the communities of Acton and Shapleigh.
The ASYCC continues to work to sustain and protect the valuable waterways of Goose Pond, Loon Pond, Mousam Lake, and Square Pond for the enjoyment of the community and its visitors.
Announcements
May 28, 2025
Live Plant ID Workshop - at the Acton Town Hall - 6/18/25 at 10 am - 1 pm
Live Plant ID workshops are 3-hour, indoor programs. In these volunteer trainings, guests learn how to use a Field Guide to identify around 40 native and invasive plants. Volunteers handle live plants, use tools to determine their identifies, and determine whether they are invasive or not.
Live Plant ID classes are a good way to be introduced to the study of aquatic invasive plants without the need of on-water equipment. They are also useful skills building workshops for invasive plant patrollers of all skill-levels.Those attendending Live Plant ID workshops are partially eligible for Tier 2 IPP Certification, along with completing the IPP 101 webinar and its accompanying review quiz.
For more info and where to register, click here
April 13, 2025
The 21th Annual Golf Tournament To Benefit the Acton-Shapleigh Youth Conservation Corps, Sponsored in Part by the Lake Associations of Mousam Lake and Square Pond, will be held on Friday, August 1, 2025
2025 Registration Golf forms are posted below:
2025 Golfer Registration (pdf)
2025 Sponsor Form (pdf)
March 20, 2025
Hiring for 2025 Erosion Control Crew Members
The ASYCC Erosion Control Crew will work from late June through mid-August, completing erosion control projects for landowners on Mousam Lake, Square Pond, Loon Pond and Goose Pond. We are currently seeking high school students as crew members.
If you are interested, please download an application below. Applications can be emailed to Dave Burns at programdirector@asycc.com or mailed to Dave Burns, ASYCC, P.O. Box 47, Springvale, Maine 04083.
Applications are due by April 1, 2025
Hiring the ASYCC Courtesy Boat Inspection team
The Acton-Shapleigh Youth Conservation Corps (ASYCC) is currently hiring Shapleigh and Acton residents for the 2025 season. The ASYCC is a community based non-profit organization whose main goal is to protect our lakes and water quality in the Mousam Lake-Square Pond Watershed through the application of effective erosion control measures, technical assistance, public outreach, education, and courtesy boat inspections. We are proud to staff our program with youth and adults that have direct ties to the towns we service!
The ASYCC Courtesy Boat Inspection team will work from late April until mid October, conducting inspections at the boat launches on Mousam Lake and Square Pond. We are currently seeking inspectors of all ages (from High School to retired).
Applications can be emailed to Dave Burns at programdirector@asycc.com or mailed to Dave Burns, ASYCC, P.O. Box 47, Springvale, Maine 04083.
Applications are due by April 1, 2025
November 25, 2024
Our 2024 Annual Report is now available.
August 5, 2024
We had a successful golf fund-raiser this year! Your donations demonstrate what can be accomplished when property owners, business owners and donors come together in support of our lakes.
We had a good day, though quite warm! All the golfers were in a good mood and said they had a great time. We ended up with 79 golfers, somewhat below our previous years numbers. The donations truly made a huge financial contribution and rivaled previous years with higher player numbers. We netted more than $16,000, which covers a significant portion of our annual budget. Please remember to visit our website, www.ASYCC.com, for additional organization and event information, including details of next year’s tournament, scheduled for Friday, August 1, 2025.
Once again, we thank you for your generous support, as does the community of over 2,000 lakefront property owners. Good stewardship of our lakes yields a thriving environment for all.
April 27, 2024
Courtesy Boat Inspection (CBI) Pre-Season Starts Saturday April 27-28!
December 20, 2023
Our 2024 hiring season for the Erosion Control Crew (ECC) and the Courtesy Boat Inspection (CBI) team is now underway!
Click here to go to our Jobs page where job applications and descriptions can be found.
November 7, 2023
Our 2023 Annual Report is now available.
October 7, 2023
Our Courtesy Boat Inspection Season has started as of April and will end in October.
Here are the number of Inspections done so far through 9/23/2023:
| 2023 | 6,197 | 877 | 7,074 |
| 2022 | 6,987 | 1,308 | 8,295 |
| 2021 | 7,106 | 1,105 | 8,211 |
| 2020 | 7,702 | 1,621 | 9,323 |
| 2019 | 5,758 | 908 | 6,666 |
| 2018 | 6,858 | 1,012 | 7,870 |
August 25, 2023
ECC Projects Totals = 21
Mousam = 12 with 1 being beach cleanup all others were 319 grant projects.
Square = 7 with 1 being beach town beach that also fell under 319 grant.
Loon = 2
We spread over 359 yards of mulch. Basically, enough mulch to fill two 3-bedroom homes floor to ceiling!