11,000 acres of ancestral homeland returned to the Penobscot Nation

Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Email Chris Bennett / Trust for Public Land Photograph of the Wáhsehtəkʷ effort. Penobscot Nation and Trust for Public Land are working to restore nearly 30,000 acres to the Penobscot Nation. Once complete, it will be one of the largest land returns between a U.S.-based nonprofit and a tribal nation, while creating much-needed access to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The Penobscot Nation is celebrating the return of about 11,000 acres of its ancestral homeland around the Penobscot River.

The land return is the first phase of a larger project to give the tribe back around 30,000 acres just south of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.