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Conservation Focus Areas of Maine's Piscataqua region

Posted by | January 3, 2011

The Land Conservation Plan for Maine’s Piscataqua Region Watersheds aims to identify and describe areas that represent the best opportunities to conserve the critical ecological, biological, and water resources of southern Maine's coastal watersheds. These Conservation Focus Areas (CFA) are presented in the plan as a series of double-sided pages that include a map of each specific area plus detailed information about its significant resources. Each CFA fact sheet is available individually here:

Conservation Focus Areas

  1. Alewife Pond
  2. Bauneg Beg Mountain
  3. Beaver Dam Heath
  4. Brave Boat Harbor - Gerrish Island
  5. Cranberry Meadow
  6. Folsom Pond
  7. Gerrish Mountain
  8. Kennebunk Plains and Wells Barrens
  9. Knights Pond
  10. Little River East
  11. Little River West
  12. Massabesic Forest South
  13. Merriland River Wetlands
  14. Mount Agamenticus
  15. Passaconway Pond
  16. Sanford Ponds
  17. Shaker Pond
  18. Shapleigh Pond
  19. South Acton Swamps
  20. Sturgeon Creek
  21. Walnut Hill
  22. Waterboro Shapleigh Barrens
  23. Webhannet River Headwaters
  24. Wells and Ogunquit Marsh
  25. West Sanford Swamps

You may also download the full conservation plan, which includes all of the Conservation Focus Area fact sheets.

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