In 2020, conservation partners began securing Maine’s Chadbourne Tree Farm; six years later, more than 27,000 acres of working forest are permanently protected from development. The forest remains open to the public

• More than 27,000 acres of forestland in western Maine have been permanently protected after a six-year conservation effort brought together environmental organisations, state agencies and local land trusts.
• The achievement safeguards working forests, drinking-water resources and recreational access across a landscape near Bethel that could otherwise have faced fragmentation and development.
• According to Maine Public, the Bangor Daily News and The Conservation Fund, the October 2026 milestone builds on an initial acquisition in 2020 and extends conservation protections across the surrounding re