TIMES RECORD • December 14, 2020
Bowdoin College’s plans for a 20-acre solar array at Brunswick Landing are another step toward long-term sustainability for the college, but some local environmentalists are concerned that the array will put the health of a rare “critically imperiled” sandplain grassland further at risk. The property is one of just four identified sites in the state according to an ecologist with the Maine Natural Areas Program. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife also found two species of “special concern” living in the grassland and shrubby areas: the prairie warbler and Eastern Towhee.