MAINE PUBLIC • March 1, 2020
Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a Topsham-based conservation organization, is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the completion of a six-year campaign to raise $125-million. Tim Glidden, the group's president, says the funding comes at a time when sea level rise poses a threat to shoreline access and climate change threatens more than a third of Maine's native plants and animals. Maine Coast Heritage Trust was originally formed in 1970 to protect the Maine coast from "rapid and unplanned" development. Since then, the group has protected more than 150,000 acres.