Secretary Salazar, Senator Collins Highlight Recovery Act Projects, Economic Benefits for Maine during Tour of Acadia

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senator Susan Collins highlighted $8.3 million in projects at Acadia National Park funded under President Obama's economic recovery package that will bring jobs and economic growth to Maine.

Investment in the park under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed earlier this year by the president includes $170,000 to replace safety and informational signs, $2.2 million to resurface roads and parking lots, $844,000 to repair culverts and headwalls, $268,000 to remove unneeded buildings, and $4.4 million to rehabilitate roads and parking areas at the Schoodic Education and Research Center

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    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar looks at plans for $8.3 million in projects at Acadia National Park funded under President Obama's economic recovery package that will bring jobs and economic growth to Maine. Left to right are Alan Goldstein, President of the Board of Directors for Acadia Partners for Science and Learning at the Schoodic Research and Education Center, June Devisfruto, Schoodic Education and Research Coordinator, Dan Wenk, Acting Director NPS, Secretary Salazar and Maine Senator Susan Collins. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann – DOI]

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    June Devisfruto, Schoodic Education and Research Coordinator, briefs Secretary Salazar and Senator Collins about youth outreach and education at the Schoodic Education and Research Center. This photo was taken on the 2nd floor patio of the historic Rockefeller Building on the campus of the NPS Schoodic Research and Education Center. Left to right - Dan Wenk, Acting Director NPS, Secretary Salazar, Senator Collins, Acadia Superintendent Sheridan Steele and Deputy Superintendent Len Bobinchock. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann – DOI]

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    Secretary Salazar and Senator Collins visited with some of the leaders of Maine's four tribes. They met at the College of the Atlantic. From left to right – Lt. Governor Joseph Socobasin, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township, Micmac Chief Victoria Higgins, Secretary Salazar, Senator Collins, Tribal Governor Rick Doyle, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point and Passamaquoddy Legislative Representative Donald Soctomah. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann – DOI]

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    Secretary Salazar and Senator Collins met with a large group of stakeholders at the College of the Atlantic in Bar harbor, ME to discuss landscape scale conservation in the north woods of Maine. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann – DOI]

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    Acadia National Park is the first national park east of the Mississippi River and is home to Cadillac Mountain the tallest mountain on the East coast. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann – DOI]

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