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Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission approves precedent-setting Concept Plan for Plum Creek's lands in the Moosehead Lake region. The approval permanently conserves more than 400,000 acres, while limiting development to no more than 4% of the lands.
The Forest Society of Maine will hold the 363,000-acre conservation easement.
Click here to learn more about this remarkable conservation achievement.
The mission of the Forest Society of Maine (FSM) is to conserve Maine's forestlands in a manner that sustains the ecological, economic, cultural, and recreational values of the Maine woods. As Maine's land trust for the North Woods, FSM focuses its efforts to promote the conservation of functional, working forest landscapes with multiple social and ecological values.
To date, FSM has helped conserve: 416,390 acres of forestland, 901 miles of rivers and streams, and 510 miles of lake and pond shoreline.
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