MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 3, 2022
Conservation interests are scrambling to try to preserve the Greater Portland region’s remaining unfragmented forests and wetlands, as the pace of development quickens. Amid the sprawl, they are racing to stitch together large preserves. They see a fading opportunity to save significant habitat for wildlife, forests to protect water quality and store climate-changing carbon dioxide and places where Mainers can go to be in nature 100 years from now.