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Fishing on the Moose River. © David McClain

Here's the latest on the Moosehead Conservation Framework.

May 15, 2012
The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and Plum Creek announce an historic conservation easement on 363,000 acres near Greenville.
Read the press release.

March 15, 2012
Maine's high court clears the way for the 363,000-acre Moosehead Forest Conservation Easement, the largest contiguous forest easement in Maine. Read our statement.
Read the court's decision

April 7, 2011
Statement by Mike Tetreault, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy in Maine
In response to Maine Superior Court’s April 7, 2011 decision in the case of Forest Ecology Network and Restore: The North Woods v. Land Use Regulation Commission

September 23, 2009
The Nature Conservancy Celebrates Stunning Conservation Outcomes
Decision on Moosehead Plan results in conservation of more than 400,000 acres (press release)

January 20, 2008
Maine Should Cut a Deal with Plum Creek (Portland Press Herald)

December 2, 2007
Is This Any Place to Build a Home? (Bangor Daily News)

November 30, 2007 
Conservation a Key to Plum Creek plan (Press Herald)

October 11, 2007
Moosehead Plan Hearings Delayed (Bangor Daily News)

September 28, 2007
Nature Conservancy's Rebuttal Testimony (pdf 565 kb).

September 28, 2007
Forest Society of Maine's Rebuttal Testimony (pdf 496 kb).

August 31, 2007
Conservation Values of the Framework: from The Nature Conservancy's testimony to LURC (pdf 28 kb).

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