Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following individuals for their help and support with our research for the State of Maine’s Environment 2012 report:
| Kathy Eickenberg | Chief of Planning, Maine Division of Parks and Public Lands |
| Wolfe Tone | Maine State Director, The Trust for Public Land |
| R. Collin Therrien | Senior Planner, Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry |
| Chris Pryor | Conservation Easement Monitoring Coordinator and Forester, New England Forestry Foundation |
| Warren Whitney | Land Trust Program Manager, Maine Coast Heritage Trust |
| Theresa Kerchner | Executive Director, Kennebec Land Trust |
| Cathy Johnson | North Woods Project Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine |
| Monica Erhard | Linkage Coordinator, Staying Connected Initiative |
| Dan Coker | GIS Analyst / Conservation, The Nature Conservancy |
| Emmie Theberge | Clean Energy and Global Warming Outreach Coordinator, Natural Resources Council of Maine |
| Dylan Voorhees | Clean Energy and Global Warming Project Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine |
| Matt Kearns | Vice President Development Northeast, First Wind |
| Abby King | Toxics Policy Advocate, Natural Resources Council of Maine |
| Harold Nilsson | Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management, Maine Department of Environmental Protection |
| Roy Krout | Sustainability Unit, Maine Department of Environmental Protection |
| Maggie Shannon | Maine Congress of Lake Associations |
| Pat Sirois | Director, Maine’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative |
| Andy Shultz | Landowner Outreach Forester, Maine Forest Service |
| Greg Miller | GIS Programmer Analyst for the Maine Forest Service |
| Rob Lilieholm | E.L. Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy, University of Maine |
| Ken Olsen | Friends of Acadia |
| Pete Didisheim | Senior Director of Advocacy, Natural Resources Council of Maine |
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From Colby College we acknowledge the help of: |
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| Philip Nyhus | Associate Professor of Environmental Studies |
| Manny Gimond | GIS and Quantitative Analysis Specialist |
| Lia Morris | Environmental Studies Coordinator |
| Leah Powley | Student Assistant, Environmental Studies Program |
| Russ Cole | Chair, Environmental Studies Program |
| Tom Tietenberg | Mitchell Family Professor of Economics (Emeritus) |
| Patricia Murphy | Director, Physical Plant Department |
| Dale DeBlois | Environmental Program Manager, Physical Plant Department |