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Release No. 1157
Forest Service grants $52.2M to protect working forests, rural economies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2012 — The U.S. Forest Service announced today that it is granting $52.2 million for 17 conservation and working lands projects across the U.S. in 2012.
The Forest Legacy Program has protected 2.2 million acres through public-private partnership using federal and leveraged funds of more than $562 million. The program works with private landowners, states and conservation groups to promote sustainable, working forests. Forest Legacy is an important component of the President’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative’s goal of conserving rural working farms, ranches, and forests by accelerating locally-driven landscape conservation priorities.
Maine has received $7million for the following project:
The High Peaks - Crocker Mountain project will protect 11,798 acres of productive forestland in the High Peaks of western Maine adjacent to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Navy’s Redington Survival School Base, Penobscot Indian Nation lands and three state conservation parcels. Protection of this property will result in a connected landscape of conservation lands 77,000 acres in size. This project, as well as the High-Peaks Orbeton Stream project and the Androscoggin Headwaters project, is located within an America’s Great Outdoors demonstration landscape designed to highlight landscape-scale conservation partnerships.
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 2:13PM
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