BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 23, 2022
The island is both an important breeding area for birds, and an essential stop-over for dozens of migrating species, including warblers, sparrows, scarlet tanagers, Baltimore orioles, and many others. Sears Island represents a major and essential staging area for these migrants. Yet the state risks jeopardizing this by constructing a terminal for off-shore windmills on the island, even though a suitable, already heavily altered site exists for further development at nearby Mack Point. Let’s end the threat of development on Sears Island once and for all, and conserve the island in its entirety. ~ John Wyatt, Winterport