MAINEBIZ • June 8, 2021
Two Maine working forest projects are slated to get around $16 million in federal money for the 2022 fiscal year through the Great American Outdoors Act. The 13,500-acre Quill Hill to Perham Stream area in the High Peaks Region of western Franklin County is budgeted for $8.05 million for the coming fiscal year. Chadbourne Tree Farms, encompassing 15,412 acres in Bethel, is slated to get $7 million. The funding is through the Forest Legacy Program of the Great American Outdoors Act, passed by Congress last year. Another Maine project specified in the budget is $7.6 million to upgrade the wastewater system in Acadia National Park's Schoodic Point area through the National Parks and Public Land Legacy and Restoration Fund, and $200,000 through the Interior Department's Land and Water Conservation Fund.