SUN JOURNAL • March 2, 2021
A letter to the editor by Alex Titcomb, Feb. 24, is woefully inaccurate. The forests of the western Maine mountains are not pristine, but nonetheless are beautiful and worth preserving. Approximately 37,000 acres are owned by the Nature Conservancy and private families, not commercial timber harvesters. The transmission line corridor would pass through the habitat of rare and endangered trees, birds and invertebrates. Which version of the western Maine mountains do Maine people prefer. Forests supporting native brook trout, unique wildlife, rare forest and rare and endangered species, or 53.5 miles of 100 foot-high and 130-foot-high steel towers located in a permanent clear-cut. If bringing hydro power from Quebec to New England is so important, then the competing transmission line corridor proposed for Vermont should be used. ~ John Nicholas, Winthrop