Land for Maine's Future funds leverage purchase of Plum Creek Timber Co. tracts
Plum Creek Timber Co. has sold five tracts totaling 2,730 acres in central Maine to The Trust for Public Land, which transferred the land on Monday to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as an addition to the state’s wildlife management program.
The Portland Press Herald reported that $500,000 of newly released funding from the Land for Maine’s Future program and $1.4 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wildlife Restoration Program financed the $1.9 million Central Maine Sportsman’s Access project. It’s the first project to tap $2.2 million in LMF funds released by Gov. Paul LePage in October, the newspaper reported.
The tracts, which are located in Embden, Burnham, Detroit and Ripley, include roughly 1,000 acres used by deer for shelter during the winter and 1,000 acres of wetlands used by moose and waterfowl, the newspaper reported.
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