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Forest on the western slopes of Mt. Redington, near Rangeley, designated as a wilderness sanctuary. The Northeast Wilderness Trust has purchased more than 3,400 acres on the western slopes of Mt. Redington near Rangeley for designation as a wilderness sanctuary. As permanent wilderness, the sanctuary will never be logged and will eventually become old-growth forest. Executive Director Jon Leibowitz says the parcel has an exceptionally rich and diverse habitat that will be allowed to flourish naturally. "It's a great habitat for moose. It's a mapped habitat for Canada lynx, just a really remot...

An aerial view of Kilkenny Stream with Frenchman Bay and Mount Desert Island in the background. Frenchman Bay Conservancy has closed on the purchase of 1,400 acres in Hancock. The property and an adjacent 3,100 acres will form a community forest. FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY PHOTO March 17, 2021 on Environment, News HANCOCK — Frenchman Bay Conservancy (FBC) has closed on the purchase of 1,400 acres in Hancock for its Frenchman Bay Community Forest project. The protection of this parcel is part of a larger 4,500-acre conservation project. An additional 3,100 acres of land abuts this parc...

The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue. POLITICO 3/16/2021 © POLITICO illustration by Megan McCrink/Photos by iStock The Google Files - Mobile Federal investigators were convinced: Google’s push to take over mobile internet searches was illegal. They had the evidence and urged their bosses to sue. But those politically appointed bosses overruled them. Nearly a decade later, the Justice Department and state regulators are suing Google over the same multibillion-dollar smartphone contracts that investigators for the Federal Trade Commission ...

How Obama blew the chance to tame Google: President's anti-trust regulators refused to sue tech giant for stifling competition in 2013 because they 'ignored evidence' that it would dominate rivals in targeted ads and mobile searches A trove of internal documents about the Federal Trade Commission's 19-month investigation into Google was released by Politico on Tuesday  Five FTC regulators appointed by Barack Obama were tasked with determining whether Google's business practices were in violation of antitrust laws They ultimately decided not to sue the tech giant, saying that they found only ...

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