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Community Conservation in New Gloucester
New Gloucester and surrounding communities are at a crossroads. Draw a triangle connecting Portland, Lewiston-Auburn, and Brunswick and you encompass one of Maine's fastest growing regions. And while pressure for residential development has eased with the stalled economy, it will surely return. We have all witnessed the conversion of farm- and forestland to suburbia. It is a slow erosion of our quality of place.
If current rates of sprawl continue unchecked, open fields, expansive woodlands, and many of their non-human residents will be lost forever. Growth is desirable, but not at the expense of a community's important natural assets.
The proposed Pisgah Hill Conservation Area presents an outstanding opportunity to protect a significant portion of our changing landscape. Demarcating a stretch of New Gloucester's eastern boundary between North Pownal Road and Dougherty Road, the seven parcels comprising the project total more than 243 acres and include the second highest point in New Gloucester. This project also provides a critical link between Bradbury Mountain State Park and Pineland and the potential to protect a larger block of undeveloped land stretching north to Runaround Pond.



