SUN JOURNAL • August 20, 2020
The Nature Conservancy in Maine has purchased all 9,608 acres of Merrill Strip Township in northern Franklin County, naming it the Boundary Mountains Preserve. The property is directly adjacent to over 22,000 acres of public lands in Quebec, and next to a roughly 8,000-acre property where the Forest Society of Maine is working with a private landowner to purchase a conservation easement, according to the release.