Janet Mills’ economic recovery package for dredging if the grant application was unsuccessful. This summer, the Legislature approved $10 million from Gov. Portland, South Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation have pledged $6.4 million to the project. It is now time-sensitive, as permits have a five-year lifespan. The group pursuing Portland Harbor dredging intends to regroup and look for ways to get the project funded. The city of Bangor was awarded $1.6 million to realign Interstate 95 off-ramps to Route 15 and upgrade traffic signals to make the high-crash corridor safer. The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians received $15 million to reconstruct 4.5 miles of heavily used Foxcroft Road and separate vehicle traffic from bicycles and pedestrians. Two Maine projects were among those awarded funding. Ninety infrastructure projects in 47 states were awarded grants from the $1 billion Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equality program, the DOT announced this week. Planting the right native in the right place helps anchor our natural and built environment firmly in its surroundings, whether in Portland, Vancouver, Manzanita or Bend.Related Sign up for Portland Weekly and know what’s going on in the city Douglas fir, manzanita, madrone, trillium, salal, Oregon grape and Western sword fern are iconic Pacific Northwest plants - albeit each native to its own slice of habitat. Native plantings ground a site with a sense of place.This is true for native plant-insect relationships all over the globe, which is why it's so important for us to cultivate native plants, wherever we may live.
Some native pollinators, including certain species of butterflies, have evolved alongside their host plants for millennia and depend on a particular species of plant for food and shelter.
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