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More than $1.4 million in Recreational Trails Program grants has been announced for local and state trail projects, according to the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands.
A total of 31 state projects and 23 local projects – including the reconstruction of a collapsed snowmobile bridge in Andover -- can expect to be approved for federal funding in the next two weeks, according to BPL officials. The recipient organizations were notified last week.
The total amount of funding is expected to be $1,466,847 from Federal Highway Administration funds by way of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The money comes from federal taxes on off-road vehicle registrations.
$87,000 awarded to the Snow Valley Sno-Goers snowmobile club in Andover. To be used to rebuild a 140-foot-long snowmobile suspension bridge that crossed the Ellis River in Andover and was part of Interstate Trail System 82.
$10,000 to the town of Greenville/Greenville High School, which is building a 1-mile loop behind the school. The trail will used for educational purposes, hiking and cross-country skiing and will be open for use by the community.
$103,000 grant is going to the Bradbury Mountain State Park/Pineland Land Unit, for the connection between the state park in Pownal and the public land unit in New Gloucester.
$40,000 in grant money will be used to update BPL trail brochures, which are available for the public. Maine has 260 state-owned and leased multi-use recreational trails. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife also is receiving funding to print landowner liability brochures.
Other local grants are going to: Bangor Land Trust; Maine Appalachian Club; Portland Trails; town of Freeport; Monhegan; Sanford Kiwanis; town of Falmouth; city of Waterville; MSAD 60; Appalachian Mountain Club; Maine Huts and Trails; Great Works Regional Land Trust; Portage Lakers; town of Bethel; Blue Ridge Snowmobile Club; Great Pond Mountain Land Trust; town of Minot; Androscoggin River Watershed Council; town of Canton; Western Mountain Foothills; and University of Maine at Orono.
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