A Bobolink sets down on a fence. The Sebasticook Regional Land Trust revealed today that a grant will permit farmland that’s been contamined with PFAS, and can no longer be utilized as efficient farmland, will be changed into a protect in Unity to help secure Bobolinks and other meadow birds. Courtesy image
UNITY — Farmland that can no longer be tilled due to the fact that it’s infected by PFAS will be repurposed as a nature protect as part of a wider effort to much better secure meadow birds, a preservation group revealed Tuesday.
The Unity-based Sebasticook Regional Land Trust said it received a grant from Cornell University to help bring back meadow bird environments infected with PFAS and other so-called permanently chemicals.
The trust said the $5,000 grant will help turn the Unity farmland into environment for meadow bird types that are seeing big population decreases.
“Grassland birds are among the fastest declining bird groups in the Northeast,” Tom Aversa, chairman of the trust’s board of directors, said in a declaration. “Bobolink have declined by as much as 75%, and more than 95% of meadowlarks have disappeared from our meadows.”
“This grant from Cornell Lab of Ornithology allows us to advance management to benefit grassland birds while advancing efforts to understand how we can best utilize fields impacted by historic use of PFAS-contaminated fertilizer,” he said.
Money for the grant will be used at the Richardson Memorial Preserve, which the trust has overseen since 2013. Alongside treking tracks and blended woods, the protect functions acres of farmland that were discovered to have actually been infected with PFAS years prior to. Farms throughout Maine have actually ended up being polluted by the chemicals, with farmers unconsciously utilizing PFAS-containing fertilizers for years.
In addition to bring back the land itself, the grant will be utilized for things like keeping track of meadow bird populations in the location and looking into the impacts of PFAS on natural surroundings.
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