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The Winthrop-based land trust has carved out 10 acres of its new Baldwin Hill Conservation Area for a green burial cemetery, another way to preserve the land that KLT hopes others in the state will follow.

Maine's Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday that it has issued $800,000 for 15 projects in the first round of dispensing $5.4 million in funds earmarked for vital improvement projects by the November 2014 “Clean Water for Maine” bond.