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Conservation MAINE Maine’s High Peaks 8 ECOPHOTOGRAPHY DECEMBER 2015
Conservation efforts in Maine’s north woods aim to protect vital wild places near the Appalachian Trail. Maine’s High Peaks region is home to 8 of Maine’s mountains over 4000 feet, yet until recently most of the 200,000+ acres in the area were privately owned and unprotected. More than 30 miles of the Appalachian Trail traverses the High Peaks, and the expanse of working forests in the area are wellknown for having one of the highest concentrations of moose in the state. High elevation spruce-fir forests provide important breeding habitat for the threatened Bicknell’s thrush, and the area's cold water streams and rivers are home to native brook trout and Atlantic salmon. In previous years, I photographed conservation efforts on Mount Abraham and Crocker Mountain. This year, I shot four properties, totaling more than 10,000 acres for The Trust for Public Land - in Reddington Township, near Saddleback Mountain, and in the Perham Stream and Orbeton Stream valleys. Photo left: A cow moose near the headwaters of Perham Stream in Maine Photo above right: The Appalachian Trail on Saddleback Mountain Photo bottom right: Fly-fishing on Orbeton Stream for native eastern brook trout Photo next page: Dawn breaks over the Bigelow Range DECEMBER 2015 ECOPHOTOGRAPHY 9
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