Maine’s U.S. senators are submitting a proposal to add the York River to the National Park Service’s Wild and Scenic River System.
The 13-mile-long southern Maine river is located in Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick and York.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say generations in southern Maine “have built their communities around the York River’s important ecological benefits and the economic opportunities it creates.”
The senators say designation as a Wild and Scenic River would make the York River eligible for more federal funding and resources to help maintain its free-flowing state.
