Let’s not dally in our effort to hold on to the highly significant forest here at home – Maine’s North Woods.
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Commentary: Maine’s North Woods are a wilderness of global importance
Like the Amazon rainforest and Australian Outback, Maine’s north woods are among the world’s disappearing intact ecosystems.
Conservation groups move to protect historic Bowdoinham property
The Maine Coast Heritage Trust will soon pass over the property to Kennebec Estuary Land Trust to carry out conservation activities.
The Maine Millennial: Republicans should stop whining about plastic-bag ban
Seeing the land and water in Maine littered with trash is a bigger hardship than remembering to bring a reusable carrier to the grocery store.
In northern Maine, forestry practices create shifting habitat for migrating songbirds
Nearly 30 years ago, a team of bird researchers came to conduct the first large-scale study of the impact of commercial forestry on bird populations. Now they’re back.
Commentary: Land trusts, sportsmen work to revitalize Land for Maine’s Future
Thanks to our elected policymakers’ leadership, Mainers have made a bold statement that the state’s special places deserve to be preserved and managed for the future.
Campaign to preserve island off Harpswell gets $50,000 gift
Freeport-based Maine Beer Co. is making the gift toward the $1.3 million the trust needs to buy and manage Little Whaleboat Island.
State budget includes huge boost for land preservation
Lawmakers included $40 million for the state-run Land for Maine’s Future, the second-highest injection of cash in the history of the popular conservation program.
Monmouth land to be protected from development
Conservation easement to protect a 273-acre parcel that includes forest, wetlands, open fields and 3,670 feet of shorefront on Annabessacook Lake from most types of development.
Coalition pushes for $115 million in bonds to buy Maine lands, maintain parks
The effort has drawn together groups that include farmland preservationists, fishermen, real estate agents and an economic development organization.