Sandplain Grassland Network visits Maine

Sandplain Grasslands Network Steering Committee members visited three preserves of The Nature Conservancy in southeastern Maine that are managed for their heathland and grassland habitat. Saco Heath Preserve is a 1,218-acre property that protects a combination of wooded and open peatland. Much of the property contains and overstory of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) growing in periodically wet soils. The shrub layer over…

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