PORTLAND (AP) — Landowners and conservation groups are announcing a 363,000-acre easement in Maine’s North Woods, near Moosehead Lake. They’re calling it the second-largest conservation easement in America.
The open space set aside is being announced at a news conference today in Portland by landowner Plum Creek, the Forest Society of Maine, The Nature Conservancy, state officials and people from Greenville. Under the arrangement, the Forest Society will hold the easement and The Nature Conservancy will buy it.
Because the land is surrounded by existing public and private protected lands, the new easement will result in 2 million acres of protected land stretching across Maine.
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