BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 17, 2022
A Belgrade-based building supply company has been ordered to replant vegetation next to a wetland in Bar Harbor after it improperly cut down trees on the property. Hammond Lumber, which operates 21 stores in Maine, recently acquired a 0.75-acre lot next to its Bar Harbor store in the village of Town Hill. It then cleared trees from that property and its adjoining 14-acre lot, where its store is located. The smaller lot is in the town’s shoreland zone, however, because it is within 250 feet of a wetland, which lies directly across Gilbert Farm Road from the property. Because the lot is in a protected shoreland zone, the company was not supposed to cut down trees on it. Mike Hammond, head of the company, said that it did not mean to cut down trees in the protected zone.