Across eight Appalachian states, small-scale forest landowners are earning income by letting their trees grow and store ...

Plantation residents voted in April 2025 to return to the Maine Land Use Planning Commission for zoning, land uses and planning.

Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are typically smaller homes built on an existing lot and are often seen as a solution for ...

Late last year, the Conservation Fund, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit with a Maine office in Freeport, bought a 44,000-acre swath of mountain and forestland along the Canadian border in northern ...

The Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority — created two years ago by the state Legislature — will hold an event Friday in conjunction with its first partner, the Penobscot County town of East ...

On the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry website, an interactive map tracks every bit of conserved land across all of Maine. Check only the box for federally protected lands, ...

Maine’s stunning coast has inspired painters and poets, but today, most of it is privately owned and off-limits. Land trusts work to make more scenic vistas accessible to all. The fruits of that work ...

Litigation hardly slackened. The high court has upheld public access if it occurred regularly in the past, and also repelled ...

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President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s goal of gifting the ...

Reporting from Washington — President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne ...