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A letter to the editor entitled “NECEC won’t tarnish Maine’s woods” (Alex Titcomb, Feb. 24) is woefully inaccurate. The forests of the western Maine mountains are not pristine, but nonetheless are beautiful and worth preserving for future generations.
Approximately 37,000 acres are owned by the Nature Conservancy and private individuals and families not commercial timber harvesters. The transmission line corridor would pass through a rare Jack Pine Forest and the habitat of rare and endangered birds, Bicknell’s Thrush and Rusty Blackbird. The area also includes the rare Roaring Brook May Fly, that was not known to exist outside Baxter State Park until the NECEC project.
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Nicholas Meat can weather a pandemic, but the actual weather is a different story.
The central Pennsylvania meat processing plant temporarily ceased operations at its Loganton plant Feb. 23 following a Department of Environmental Protection compliance order prohibiting the company from applying processing waste to snow-covered fields.
The plant processes about 600 dairy cull cows and bulls each day. Brian Miller, director of sustainability at Nicholas Meat, said DEP has permitted the facility to apply the residual waste, which is mostly wash water, on snowy fields for the last 10 years. But this weekâs order brought the practice to an abrupt halt.