PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • November 1, 2023
A national land trust wants to raise $32 million to return 31,000 acres of ancestral land to the Penobscot Nation in a deal that would increase tribal trust holdings by a third and secure public access to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument from the south. The California-based Trust for Public Land bought the land last December from Conservation Resources, LLC, a timber management organization, for $29.5 million. Once the trust raises the money to pay off the loans it took to make the acquisition, it will turn the land over to the tribe for placement into its trust holdings.