Whose landDawnland: Wabanaki homeland

Downeast Maine (Washington County, Dawnland)

USADowneast Maine: the Gulf of Maine coast and Acadian forest

Cold tidal coast, forest and blueberry land on the Gulf of Maine, in Dawnland, the Wabanaki homeland, where Passamaquoddy reservations lie inside the county and land return is under way. Housing is already out of reach for many of the people who live here, so belonging starts by listening to the Nations, not by looking for a place.

Land standing · qualitative, never scored

Wabanakik, the Dawnland: homeland of the four Wabanaki Nations of Maine (Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq). In Washington County the Passamaquoddy Tribe calls the St. Croix (Schoodic) watershed the heart of its ancestral homeland, and its communities at Sipayik (Pleasant Point) and Motahkomikuk (Indian Township) lie inside the county. In law, a 1794 treaty with Massachusetts assigned the Passamaquoddy lands in this county in return for relinquishing claims elsewhere, and the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act (Pub. L. 96-420, s.4) then ratified earlier land transfers and extinguished aboriginal title and related claims. First Light, working with the Wabanaki Commission, still says plainly that Maine is first a Wabanaki place.

Sources for this row (2)
TenurePrivate fee-simple under Maine law, much of it large commercial forest and blueberry land. Passamaquoddy reservation and trust land inside the county is tribal territory, never a market: under the Maine Implementing Act the right to reside there is an internal tribal matter. Land is also coming back, among it Kuwesuwi Monihq (Pine Island, 140 acres in Big Lake, returned in 2021). Unorganised townships are zoned by the Land Use Planning Commission, which under a January 2026 law must include a member of a federally recognised Nation in Maine, on the Nations' joint recommendation.
Sources for this row (1)
Arriving in good faithNot at the front door. Begin with the Wabanaki-led learning that First Light points to (its courses and resources, and the Wabanaki REACH trainings it lists for organizations), then use a documented, non-extractive route: Maine Farmland Trust's Maine FarmLink and Buy/Protect/Sell programme for land that stays in farming, and the county's own housing and economic bodies. Maine Farmland Trust announced in July 2026 that some programmes will be scaled back, so confirm what still runs. Never go after a parcel that a tribal government, the Wabanaki Commission or a Tributary conservation partner has in play for return.
Sources for this row (1)
What it asksNot there for any parcel earmarked for return or under negotiation, and, on this map's reading, not there at all before a relationship exists. First Light's published process puts land requests from Chiefs and Tribal councils first and the general public last, and asks that Wabanaki voices come at the start of any decision, not the end. Where a community can, it supports return and the unrestricted Wolankeyutomone kisi apaciyewik Fund, and arrives aware that an estimated 59 percent of county households already cannot afford to buy a home (Sunrise County Economic Council, June 2026).
Sources for this row (2)
Land coming backThe Wabanaki Tributary Land Returns are moving land back to Wabanaki communities: 11 landscapes and 50,000+ acres, returns to five tribal communities with seven non-native partner organisations, affirmed by the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship. The page gives no county breakdown, so the figure is not a Washington County figure.
Sources for this row (1)

Where the answer is not here

  • Going after a parcel that a tribal government, the Wabanaki Commission or a Tributary conservation partner has in play for return, or putting a general-public request ahead of theirs: First Light's published process puts land requests from Chiefs and Tribal councils first and the general public last.

Basis: Dawnland Return: Return (the process principles) (opens in a new tab); Dawnland Return: Tributary Land Returns (opens in a new tab)

First conversations

Public bodies and protocols to read first. Pointers, not introductions.

Host nation or community

Land-access or welcome programme

Network or association

These are pointers to public bodies. None of them has agreed to be contacted, and none is a person. Read first; ask how they want to be approached; never assume.

Further sources for this entry (10)
Source: Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship and First Light, Return (land recovery priorities); Maine Implementing Act, 30 M.R.S. ch. 601

Assembled from public sources and checked on 2026-10-05. No nation or community named here has reviewed this entry.

consent of the people of this place

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How to arrive in Downeast Maine (Washington County, Dawnland)

Where arriving in a place would harm the community already there, the honest answer is not to go.

Every region in this tool is already someone’s home.

What living here asks of you

Downeast Maine asks you to arrive as a guest in Wabanaki homeland, not as a buyer of it. The Passamaquoddy reservations at Sipayik and Motahkomikuk lie inside the county, and under the Maine Implementing Act the right to reside there is an internal tribal matter, so that land is not a market. Beyond it, First Light's published process, which centres the Wabanaki Commission, puts land requests from Chiefs and Tribal councils first and the general public last, which means waiting beside returns already under way rather than bidding against them. Housing is the pressure to be honest about: the Sunrise County Economic Council estimates that 59 percent of county households cannot afford to buy a home. The land itself asks for a working relationship with berries and forest, a coast where the tide at Eastport ranges about 18 feet, and private wells that Maine leaves to the owner to test.

Source: Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship and First Light, Return (land recovery priorities) (opens in a new tab)

Place · around the reference point, 100 km

Downeast Maine: the Gulf of Maine coast and Acadian forest

Where it sits
In the New England-Acadian forests.
Where the water goes
St Croix, Machias, Narraguagus and the other Washington County coastal rivers. Drains to Gulf of Maine (Atlantic Ocean).

Ecoregions: RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (CC BY 4.0), computed within 100 km of the region's reference point, not its footprint. Watershed named from the region dossier and checked against Natural Earth rivers.

A descriptive label written for this tool. The names of peoples and places belong under Whose land.

The way in · qualitative · not legal advice

What lawful entry involves, in order

Who may hold
Maine law puts no bar on who may buy: 'an alien may take, hold, convey and devise real estate or any interest therein' (33 MRS 451). A corporation or partnership that holds, acquires or transfers an interest in agricultural land, on its own behalf or as a fiduciary or trustee, files an annual report with the commissioner (7 MRS 33). Neither rule restricts a purchase. The statutes were read on the Maine legislature's site; 2026 session changes and any foreign-adversary land bill were not checked. 33 MRS 451 (Rights of aliens); 7 MRS 33 (Report required)
How a group can hold
Conservation easement held by a land trust or governmental body
  • Conservation easement held by a land trust or governmental body. A conservation easement may be held by a governmental body or by a nonprofit corporation or charitable trust whose purposes or powers include protecting natural, scenic or open-space values or keeping land available for agricultural, forest, recreational or open-space use. It limits development and use; it does not create shared ownership. 33 MRS 476 (Conservation easements, definitions)
First claim
  • No statutory pre-emption right on ordinary land was found in the sources opened.
  • Passamaquoddy Indian territory is defined in state law: the Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation and land acquired for the Tribe's benefit, including parcels in Centerville, in Albany Township, in T.19 M.D.B.P.P., and up to 100 acres in Calais (30 MRS 6205). Land held for a Nation is not a parcel to treat as on the market without asking the Nation.
  • A process norm, not law: Dawnland Return's published order of priority for land returns puts requests from Chiefs and Tribal councils first, then the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship, then Wabanaki nonprofits, then the First Light community, then the general public, and all potential returns go to the Wabanaki Commission for their direction.
Direction
The purchase, subdivision and shoreland rules read are unchanged in the sources opened, but tribal-state law is in motion: in the 132nd Legislature LD 395 created a working group on extending federal beneficial laws to the Wabanaki Nations, which must report to legislators by 2 December 2026, and LD 785 was amended considerably in committee. The 133rd Legislature begins in January 2027.stable · as of 2026
  1. Listen before looking at land. The county lies in Dawnland, the Wabanaki homeland. Dawnland Return describes how land returns are directed by the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship, with a stated order of priority that puts Chiefs and Tribal councils first; 11 projects, over 50,000 acres in all, are named statewide, and no page opened breaks the figure down by county. A parcel held for return, or under negotiation, cannot be identified from outside: ask before treating any parcel as available.
    Who decides: The Nations' governments (Passamaquoddy at Sipayik and Motahkomikuk, Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi'kmaq Nation); the Wabanaki Commission on Land and StewardshipDawnland Return, Return (First Light)
  2. Understand the legal frame in which the Nations stand: the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act and the Maine Implementing Act required the Wabanaki Nations to give up their claim to dispossessed lands in exchange for a federally funded pathway to buy back 2.5 percent of the 12 million acres lost; the Wabanaki Alliance reports that they are widely regarded as a failure, and tribal-state law is being reworked now. State law applies to Indian lands except as the Act provides.
    Who decides: The Wabanaki Nations; the Maine LegislatureWabanaki Alliance, Understanding Tribal Sovereignty; 30 MRS 6204
  3. If a group would divide land or place several dwellings, ask the town's planning board whether it is a subdivision (3 or more lots in 5 years, or 5 or more dwelling units on a tract), and whether any of the land is in a shoreland area; in unorganized townships ask the Land Use Planning Commission.
    Who decides: Town planning board and code officer; Maine Land Use Planning Commission30-A MRS 4401(4); 38 MRS 435; Maine Land Use Planning Commission, About us
  4. If the aim is farming or woodland, ask the town assessor about current-use programmes: Farm and Open Space (at least 5 contiguous acres with a stated gross annual farm income), Tree Growth, and Working Waterfront; withdrawal penalties were not read.
    Who decides: Town assessor36 MRS 1102; 36 MRS 573; 36 MRS 1132
  5. Consider a conservation easement held by a land trust or governmental body where the aim is to keep land in farming or open space.
    Who decides: A land trust or governmental body33 MRS 476
What the law rules out
  • Splitting land to sell it off is not outside review: dividing a tract into 3 or more lots within any 5-year period is a subdivision whether done by sale, lease, development, buildings or otherwise (30-A MRS 4401(4)).
  • Shoreland areas are not freely buildable: mandatory zoning and land-use controls apply within 250 feet of great ponds, rivers and saltwater, within 250 feet of the upland edge of a coastal wetland, and within 75 feet of a stream (38 MRS 435).
  • A purchase does not settle the question of whether the land should be sought at all: where a parcel is held for return to a Nation, or is under a Wabanaki-led return process, the honest answer is not there.
Honest gaps
  • No Maine statute on collective ownership of land by groups (tenancy in common, nonprofit and cooperative forms) was opened, so only conservation easements are described.
  • Municipal zoning in the towns of Washington County and the Land Use Planning Commission's district rules were not read; only the statutory definitions were.
  • No statutory pre-emption right was identified; the Dawnland Return order of priority is a process norm of a Wabanaki-centred initiative, not law.
  • Which parcels are held for return, or under negotiation, cannot be identified from outside, and no county breakdown of the 50,000 acres was found; the acreage is statewide.
  • The Maine Farmland Trust land-access loan programme is documented only in a 2016 article and was not opened here; it is not described as current.
  • Whether a 2026 Maine bill on foreign ownership of land exists was not checked; the statute pages were read as published.
  • Current-use withdrawal penalties (Farm and Open Space, Tree Growth, Working Waterfront) were not read.
  • Whether holding land carries any right to a residence permit was not opened.
None is shown.

Context, not adviceOrientation from public sources, not legal advice. Check current law with a local professional before acting. Sources: 33 MRS 451 (Rights of aliens); 7 MRS 33 (Report required), 33 MRS 451 (Rights of aliens), 30-A MRS 4401(4); 38 MRS 435; Maine Land Use Planning Commission, About us, 33 MRS 476 (Conservation easements, definitions), Dawnland Return, Return (First Light), Wabanaki Alliance, Understanding Tribal Sovereignty; 30 MRS 6204, 36 MRS 1102; 36 MRS 573; 36 MRS 1132, 33 MRS 476. Verified 5 October 2026 · confidence in this entry: medium.

Climate and water context

Climate class (Köppen-Geiger)

1961–1990Dfb, Cold, no dry season, warm summerShare of the footprint: Dfb 100%
1991–2020Dfb, Cold, no dry season, warm summerShare of the footprint: Dfb 100%
2041–2070 SSP2-4.5 · projectionDfb, Cold, no dry season, warm summerShare of the footprint: Dfb 100%
2071–2099 SSP2-4.5 · projectionDfa, Cold, no dry season, hot summerShare of the footprint: Dfa 52.8%, Dfb 47.1%, Cfb 0.2%

Shares are the fraction of the footprint land area in each class at 1 km; sea and no-data cells are excluded.

Source: Beck et al. 2023, Köppen-Geiger maps at 1 km · CC BY 4.0

Water (WRI Aqueduct classes, as published)

Water stress, baselineLow (<10%)Demand to supply ratio 0.009
Water stress, 2050 business as usual · projectionLow (<10%)Demand to supply ratio 0.009
Drought riskLow (0.0-0.2)
Interannual variabilityLow (<0.25)
Seasonal variabilityLow (<0.33)
Groundwater table trendInsignificant Trend
Riverine flood riskMedium - High (2 in 1,000 to 6 in 1,000)

WRI Aqueduct 4.0 indicators in WRI's own classes; this project does not combine or rescale them.

Source: WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0

Where legal and cost questions come first

These are the questions a community has to be able to answer in a place: who may hold the land, how a group can hold it together, and what it costs. Read them as context for a conversation with the people already there, not as a verdict on the place.

Legal and ownership

Foreign ownership
allowed Maine law lets an alien take, hold, convey and devise real estate (33 MRS 451). Corporations and partnerships that hold, acquire or transfer agricultural land file an annual report with the state (7 MRS 33; a federal AFIDA report may be filed instead). Neither restricts purchase. Statutes as extracted by the Maine Revisor on 2025-10-20; 2026 session changes and any foreign-adversary land bill were not checked.
Collective ownership path
Not researched against statute: tenancy in common, nonprofit and other entities used by groups. Opened: conservation easements held by governmental bodies or qualifying nonprofits (33 MRS 476; LD 1054 of the 132nd Legislature adds federally recognized tribes as holders) and the Farm and Open Space (36 MRS 1101 ff, farmland of at least 5 contiguous acres with at least $2,000 gross annual farm income), Tree Growth (36 MRS 571 ff, forest land used primarily for growing trees harvested for commercial use; the statute defines a certified forest management and harvest plan) and Working Waterfront (36 MRS 1131 ff, land used predominantly, over 90 percent, for commercial fishing activity) current-use programmes.
Several households on one holding
with conditions
Residency needed to buy
no residency required
Where building is decided
Organized towns: municipal zoning and subdivision review (30-A MRS 4401: division into 3 or more lots in 5 years, or 5 or more dwelling units on a tract, is a subdivision) plus mandatory Shoreland Zoning within 250 feet of great ponds, rivers and saltwater and 75 feet of streams (38 MRS 435). Unorganized and deorganized townships, which include portions of downeast Maine: Land Use Planning Commission zoning and permits (Chapter 10, Land Use Districts and Standards).
Key restriction
No bar on who may buy; two gates rather than a ban: subdivision review where a group divides land or places five or more dwelling units, and Land Use Planning Commission rules in unorganized territory. Land held by a Nation (reservation and trust land, roughly 2 to 3 percent of the county's land (Census TIGERweb, approximate)) is not for sale. The decisive limit is not statute: the Wabanaki land-return process decides whether a parcel should be sought at all.
Legal direction
stable Tribal-state law is in motion. In the 132nd Legislature LD 395 created a working group on extending federal beneficial laws to the Wabanaki Nations (report due 2 December 2026); LD 785 as introduced would have enacted the remaining 2020 task force recommendations and was amended considerably in committee; LD 870 adds a Wabanaki citizen to the Land Use Planning Commission; LD 1054 adds tribes as easement holders (Wabanaki Alliance scorecard, retrieved 2026-10-04). The 133rd Legislature begins in January 2027. Federal basis: Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, Pub. L. 96-420, 25 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.; state: Maine Implementing Act, 30 MRS ch. 601.

Source: Maine Revised Statutes (33 MRS 451; 7 MRS 33; 30-A MRS 4401; 38 MRS 435; 36 MRS ch. 105); Maine Land Use Planning Commission; Wabanaki Alliance 132nd Legislature scorecard (opens in a new tab) · medium confidence

Known gaps. Chapter 10 adjacency rules, municipal zoning variation and subdivision exemptions not read in detail; no statutory pre-emption right identified (the Wabanaki priority order is a First Light process norm, not law); collective-ownership statutes not opened; 2025-2026 bills on land ownership not checked because search was unavailable; current-use withdrawal penalties not read.

Land cost

Price
5,278–11,614 USD per hectare (2022 (county); 2026 (state))
Price band
5,000 to 10,000 EUR-equivalent per hectare
Price trajectory
rising Nominal: Washington County farm land and buildings 1,534 to 2,136 USD/acre, +39% 2017 to 2022 (Census of Agriculture Table 8); Maine farm real estate 3,090 to 3,400 USD/acre, +10% 2022 to 2026 (NASS), against +21% for the US (3,720 to 4,500). Separate from farmland: the county's economic council estimates that 59% of households cannot afford to buy a home (June 2026). Out-of-state buyer pressure could not be sourced and is not claimed.
Detail
Low: Washington County average market value of land and buildings per farm acre, 2,136 USD/acre in the 2022 Census of Agriculture (Table 8), x 2.47105 = 5,278 USD/ha. High: Maine average cropland value 2026, 4,700 USD/acre (NASS Land Values 2026 Summary, July 2026), x 2.47105 = 11,614 USD/ha; Maine all farm real estate 3,400 USD/acre = 8,401 USD/ha and pasture 2,700 USD/acre = 6,672 USD/ha. Mixed county 2022 and state 2026 sources; farm-sector averages (blueberry barrens, woodland and buildings), not forest or shorefront sale prices, which were not found.

Source: USDA NASS Census of Agriculture 2022 (Washington County, Table 8); USDA NASS Land Values 2026 Summary (July 2026); Sunrise County Economic Council housing page (opens in a new tab) · medium confidence

Known gaps. No county farmland value after 2022; no forest, shorefront or timberland sale prices; no county house-price series (MaineHousing dashboards are interactive and could not be read); band is a qualitative gloss on farm-sector averages, not a market recommendation.

Practical fit

Hospital access

Nearest hospital
22.85 km Down East Community Hospital, straight line from the region centre
Hospitals within 50 km
3
Hospitals within 100 km
16
60-minute proxy
within 60 minutes a straight-line proxy, not a road time

Geodesic km from region centroid to nearest OSM hospital, not a 60-minute road-network isochrone. The centroid may fall on a regional hub city (Oaxaca City, Santiago, Bolzano, Taos, Evora) rather than a target rural settlement site, so a low number can reflect centroid placement more than real rural-settlement access. V2 to refine via road-time isochrones.

Demographics

Population trend
stable Census 32,856 (2010) to 31,095 (2020), -5.4%; estimates since: 31,107 base (April 2020), 31,507 (2022), 31,383 (2024). Deaths exceed births every year (2024: 260 births, 604 deaths, natural change -344), offset by net migration (2024 +286: domestic +231, international +55; 2022 +590). From 2012 to 2018 migration was net out (-43 to -140 a year, Vintage 2020 series).
Median age
aging Median age 48.6 and 27.2% aged 65 or over on 1 July 2024 (8,537 of 31,383), against 23.5% for Maine as a whole (330,265 of 1,405,012, summed from the same county file); median age was 48.5 in 2020, so the level is high but not rising fast.
Migration
more people arriving than leaving Net in since 2019: +250 in 2019 and +335 in 2020 (Vintage 2020 series), +347 in 2021, +590 in 2022, +291 in 2023 and +286 in 2024 (Vintage 2024 series); net out 2012-2018. Domestic migration counts moves from any other US county, including other Maine counties; it is not a count of out-of-state buyers. Newcomers meet a county where an estimated 59% of households cannot afford to buy.
Rural density
very low density 4.7 persons/km2 on land area (2020 Census); GHSL 2030 5.4; largest centres small (Calais, Machias, Eastport).

Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Vintage 2024 (co-est2024-alldata, cc-est2024-agesex-all) and Vintage 2020 (co-est2020-alldata); 2020 Census via TIGERweb (opens in a new tab) · high confidence

Known gaps. Migration is estimates-based and domestic includes in-state moves; income and housing tenure not pulled (ACS needs an API key).

Field reality, water and soil

Water source control

Rights regime
Not researched as a doctrine. Opened: private wells are unregulated and owners are responsible for testing and treatment (Maine CDC); the State declares itself trustee of its waters for Shoreland Zoning (38 MRS 435); great ponds are inland waters over 10 acres in a natural state (38 MRS 480-B); the St. Croix is a border river with a binational commission (St. Croix International Waterway Commission, eight commissioners appointed by the Governor of Maine and the Premier of New Brunswick).
Rights holder
mixed
Single-entity control
low Supply is dispersed: more than half of Maine relied on private wells in 2023 (statewide, STS 2026). No county utility concentration was found. The practical risk is quantity and quality, not control: groundwater was at record monthly lows in many USGS wells in fall 2025 and Maine remained in hydrologic drought through winter 2025-26, with some residents deepening wells or seeking emergency supplies.
When water is short
none identified for private wells; Maine Drought Task Force and well-owner guidance not opened

Source: Maine CDC Private Well Water; 38 MRS 435 and 480-B; Maine Climate Council STS 2026 Interim Climate Science Report; St. Croix International Waterway Commission (opens in a new tab) · medium confidence

Known gaps. Groundwater and surface-water withdrawal doctrine (reasonable use or otherwise) not opened; county private-well share and any Great Pond access constraints not opened; Wabanaki water and fisheries rights (MITSC regulates fishing on certain waters within and bordering Indian territory) not read in detail.

Soil contamination

Known contamination
not read No county-specific contamination finding was opened. Statewide facts: Maine CDC says 1 in 10 Maine wells has too much arsenic (arsenic MCL 10 ppb), and recommends testing private wells annually for coliform, E. coli, nitrate and nitrite and every 3-5 years for arsenic, uranium, radon and others. Maine's PFAS farm problem is tied to licensed biosolids spreading sites (MFT and MOFGA run PFAS testing grants; Indigenous producers of food and medicine need not meet commercial-farm criteria); no Washington County tally was found. Blueberry-barren pesticide use was not documented against a primary source.
Contamination register
public register
Due-diligence burden
moderate
Regulatory regime
Maine DEP Uncontrolled Hazardous Substance Sites Program (38 MRS ch. 13-B, 1361-1371; the state equivalent of Superfund), Brownfields program and a public Hazardous and Oil Spill reporting system; private wells are not regulated and owners test and treat (Maine CDC).

Source: Maine DEP Uncontrolled Sites Program; Maine CDC Arsenic in Drinking Water and Private Well Water; Maine Farmland Trust PFAS page (opens in a new tab) · low confidence

Known gaps. Washington County arsenic rate, PFAS site list, uncontrolled-site list and blueberry-barren pesticide record not opened; burden rated from the statewide private-well position.

Climate buffering, state and trajectory

Buffering features (state)

Primary features
coastal moderation forest canopy
Altitude range
5-222 (Global Solar Atlas elevation at 160 land sample points)
Buffering strength
moderate
Detail
A cold-water coast (Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy) and a county that is about 93% forest by area (Hansen year-2000 canopy of 30% or more) hold WorldClim's 2041-2060 mean annual temperature to 9.0 C (17-GCM mean, range 7.8 to 10.7). The coastal-versus-inland gradient (fog, summer highs) was not quantified from a primary source, so strength is rated moderate.

Trajectory under warming

Direction
buffering falling Maine has warmed about 3.5 F since the late 1800s and the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998; annual precipitation +15% over the last century; sea level rise rate along four tide gauges (including Eastport) is 75% faster in 1996-2025 than over the long record; Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis cases have risen in Maine (Maine had the third-highest Lyme rate in 2023 per US CDC). The Gulf of Maine has cooled somewhat in the past couple of years: STS calls this a pause in warming, not a reversal. GMRI: 0.84 F per decade 1982-2024 against 0.3 F for the world ocean.
Primary vulnerability
sea-level rise and storm-surge flooding on the coast (Machias tide gauge during the 10 and 13 January 2024 storms), a Gulf of Maine warming nearly three times faster than the world ocean, hydrologic drought and well stress, and rising tick-borne disease

Source: Maine Climate Council Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, 2026 Interim Climate Science Report; Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 2024 Gulf of Maine Warming Update; WorldClim CMIP6 v2.1 (opens in a new tab) · medium confidence

Known gaps. No county-scale projection from the Maine Climate Council; coastal-versus-inland temperature gradient and fog frequency not quantified; Eastport and Lubec surge exposure maps not opened.