AMERICAN JOURNAL • August 4, 2020
Maine Coast Heritage Trust has until December to raise money to preserve a small chain of islands off Harpswell, an effort the trust says is crucial to maintaining some of the last undeveloped, open lands in the state. The group needs a remaining $400,000 to buy Little Whaleboat, Nate and Tuck islands. The islands are owned by a family that offered to sell the land for a total $1.3 million, according to the trust’s president, Tim Glidden. The islands must be preserved because they are some of the last undeveloped places in the state that are friendly to visitors, Glidden said, and they are also part of a larger network of islands that is home to a number of sea birds.