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March 23, 2006
Project Coordinator Contact:
Stewart Fefer
(stewart_fefer@fws.gov;
207-781-8364 x17)
Four Small NAWCA Proposals Funded in Maine
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Gulf of Maine Coastal Program was delighted to learn this week that the following four Small North American Wetland Conservation Act grant proposals were funded in Maine. Our office played a large role in helping support each of the grant proposals by working closely with each of the land trusts by:
- providing strategic advice on important details relating to accessing NAWCA funds,
- providing samples of successful proposals from previous years
- reviewing and extensively commenting on draft texts,
- reviewing budgetary requirements
- providing and interpreting biological data from our Gulf of Maine habitat analysis and Beginning with Habitat
- calculating wetland acreages and completing maps to accompany the proposals.
In total, the four projects received $191,800 of federal NAWCA funds, provided $1.3 million in non-federal matching funds, and helped secure 530.2 acres of high value wetland and associated upland buffer habitat. The four funded proposals include:
Richardson Seal Cove, South Bristol: 43.2 acres, $50,000 NAWCA funds, $700,000 in matching funds. This is part of the Damariscotta River Association’s Seal Cove Conservation Initiative, designed to protect coastal wetlands for waterbirds, raptors and diadromous fish in Seal Cove.
Blaisdell-Clough parcels on York River--50 acres, $41,800 NAWCA funds, $247,700 in matching funds. This is part of the 48,000 acre Mount Agamenticus to the Sea conservation campaign, specifically focusing on the York Land Trust’s interest in protecting a “ribbon of green” along the York River’s expansive salt marsh.
Tatnic Hill Wetlands, South Berwick–29 acres, $50,000 NAWCA funds, $211,000 in matching funds. This is part of the 48,000 acre Mount Agamenticus to the Sea conservation campaign region, specifically focusing on the Great Work Land Trust’s interest in the 3,000-acre Tatnic Conservation Focus Area, which provides habitat for wading birds, waterfowl, songbirds, amphibians and state-endangered and threatened reptiles.
Upper Saco River Project, Fryburg – 408 acres (easement), $50,000
NAWCA funds, $155,000 non-matching funds. The Upper Saco River watershed,
one of the largest unfragmented tracts of floodplain forest in New England,
is part of a priority conservation area for The Nature Conservancy (Maine
Chapter). This parcel provides high value habitat for waterbirds, amphibians,
turtles, wide-ranging mammals and is expected to be part of a total of
8,500 acres of protected or soon-to-be protected floodplain forests