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Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
On May 25, 2005, NEFF and the Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT)
completed the final purchases of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
project, meeting all deadlines to conserve an area designated as a GLOBALLY
IMPORTANT BIRD AREA by the American Bird
Conservancy. Today, the State of
Maine owns 3,000 acres along Spednic Lake and the Upper St. Croix River, DLLT
owns 27,080 acres of community forest, and NEFF holds a conservation easement
over 312,000 acres of adjacent forestland.
The grand total: 342,000 acres of contiguous woodlands and waterways,
permanently protected from development and available forever for public
recreation, the centerpiece of more than 1
million acres of conserved land in Maine and New Brunswick. The project has come this far because of
tremendous support from the Acres
for America program, a partnership of the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Wal-Mart,
in cooperation with The Conservation
Fund, and from: the
Open Space Conservancy at the Open Space Institute,
The Nature Conservancy, Mrs. Elmina B. Sewall, the Land For Maine’s Future
Program, U.S Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Sweet Water Trust, the Woodie Wheaton Land Trust, Passamaquoddy
Tribe of Indian Township, National
Wildlife Federation, Wildlife
Forever, and many other individuals, corporations, and foundations.
 NECN (New England Cable News) has teamed up with NEFF and
the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership. NECN's Scot Yount put a spotlight on this beautiful part of our region, and
offered viewers the opportunity to be part of this historic conservation project to keep this land unspoiled.
PROJECT GOAL:
The partners have completed the $31.5 million project to
fund these purchases, establish critical monitoring and management
endowments, and cover the costs of the capital campaign
— a
remarkable achievement.
Thank you for your generous
contributions to this project.
Click here for more project details.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Contact
Whit Beals, Director of Land
Protection, at 978-952-6856 x109 or Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
Steve Keith, Executive Director of the Downeast Lakes Land Trust, at (207) 796-2100
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