PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 10, 2022
Two conservation groups have completed a project that protects more than 20,000 acres connecting conservation lands in Maine and New Hampshire, including part of the Appalachian Trail, according to a release Thursday by the Forest Society of Maine. The 21,265-acre Grafton Forest Project in western Maine culminates several years of work by the forest society and the Northeast Wilderness Trust in collaboration with Wagner Forest Management, a timberland owner, the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and other groups. FSM and NEWT jointly raised $10.7 million in private funds to complete the project.