DAILY BULLDOG • August 21, 2020
Following the purchase of 9,608 acres of land near the Canadian border, The Nature Conservancy announced last week that it will be creating an ecological reserve. The acreage was purchased by the conservation organization from Bayroot, LLC to create the Boundary Mountains Preserve, The Nature Conservancy said in a press release. The land is adjacent to 22,000 acres of public land in Quebec and a roughly 8,000 acre parcel that another organization, the Forest Society of Maine, is working to purchase a conservation easement for. According to The Nature Conservancy, acquiring the Merrill Strip Township land further extends a corridor of more than 260,000 acres that links the White Mountains in New Hampshire, the foothills of western Maine and the Quebec borderlands.