BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 31, 2021
As a devoted sport fisherman and environmental educator, I was very happy to learn that President Joe Biden had embraced conserving 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by the year 2030. This is an ever important strategy to slow climate change and to prevent the further loss of critically sensitive habitats. Take the Atlantic salmon as an example. This keystone species was once found in every coastal river northeast of the Hudson River. Today only remnant populations of the endangered Atlantic salmon are found in fewer than 10 rivers here in Maine. If we want healthy fish and wildlife, we need to conserve their habitat. The 30 x 30 initiative will benefit fish, wildlife and communities that value the natural world. ~ Donald R. Sprangers, East Machias