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Land for Maines Future about to exhaust its $9M in conservation funds
Source: Bangor Daily News, by Kevin Miller
A special board will meet Tuesday to decide which of nearly 40 proposals seeking to protect more than 80,000 acres in Maine should receive a share of $9.25 million available through the Land for Maine’s Future program. July 10, 2011 But Tuesday’s meeting will all but empty the land conservation program’s coffers, which are reliant on voter-approved bonds. And with no bond proposals scheduled to appear on Maine ballots in 2011, it could be a year or two before the politically popular Land for Maine’s Future program has funding to distribute to conservation projects.
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