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Family Owned business in Skowhegan close for the day for community service in honor of Arbor Day

Dr. Ann Dorney and Somerset Woods Trustees are looking to return the 27-acre Parsons Family Preserve to its natural state and have it serve as an educational space for people to visit and enjoy.

Fifteen projects totaling $619,000 will conserve more than 50,000 acres and create land conservation easements across the state with funding through Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Protection grant program. The grant program awarded $145,000, while donors with advised funds at MaineCF contributed an additional $474,000.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff For the first time in seven years, the volunteers who maintain the Appalachian Trail in Maine will soon have a modern, comfortable and permanent place to spend their days off.  Each year, crews from the Maine Appalachian Trail Club head into the woods to perform maintenance and repairs along the 267 miles of the Appalachian Trail that run from Grafton Notch in the south to Katahdin in the north.

Mon, 01/25/2021 - 1:15pm Kittery Land Trust intern Kate Loughlin delivers fresh produce from the Giving Garden to the Kittery School Nutrition Program. (Photo by Jen Clifford/KLT) Maine Farmland Trust, in Belfast, is one of eight nonprofit organizations across the state to share a $250,000 grant from Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Protection grant program. Launched last year, the program provides grants for land acquisition or land conservation easement projects. The Trust will use its $20,000 share to purchase an easement on the new home of Liberation Farms, a coopera...