MAINE PUBLIC • June 15, 2020
A coalition of land conservation groups is buying and preserving a 15,000-acre tree farm in western Maine that's been in one family for 12 generations. Tom Duffus is Maine's representative for the Conservation Fund. He says the Chadbourne parcels include white pine forests that fed the family's sawmills for more than 100 years, as well as secluded trout brooks, and Tumbledown Dick Mountain. the property will continue to be managed to provide lumber, pulp - and jobs. He adds that some 3,500 acres of the properties will be managed for the health of the watershed of Sebago Lake.