BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 4, 2026
Water quality in Long Cove, an inlet of Deer Isle that hosts clamming, elver harvesting and an oyster farm, is set to be protected by a new conservation project upstream. Island Heritage Trust, a land trust that preserves properties in Deer Isle and Stonington, is on track to acquire 77 acres at the headwaters of Meadow Brook for that purpose. Water there flows into the cove. The trust will get $250,000 to help it do so in the first round of funding through the state’s Climate Resilience Conservation Fund. The funding is part of a $69 million grant Maine received from NOAA in July of 2024. The program plans to distribute $4.1 million over three funding rounds for conservation projects that can provide protection against storms, flooding and erosion.