COURIER/POST • January 14, 2025
Over $1.2 million in funding from the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program (MNRCP) was awarded for three projects that will restore and enhance freshwater and coastal wetlands in Biddeford and Kennebunkport. Enhancing the wetlands will improve climate resiliency, enhance wildlife habitat, and reduce flooding impacts. In Biddeford, the funding will be used for a salt marsh enhancement program that will rectify past agricultural impacts to the marsh and improve habitat for saltmarsh sparrows. In Kennebunkport, the funding will be used to restore nine acres of former agricultural field within the 1,200 acre Edwin Smith Preserve to the forested and scrub-shrub wetland.