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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Excerpts from some of the four hours + of testimony the state legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources committee heard yesterday at the public hearing for 2 bills related to protecting Sears Island from industrial development: LD 226, “An Act to Protect the Cultural Resources and Historical Heritage of Sears Island in Searsport by Extending Conservation Easement Protections”. FMI: legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/226?legislature=132 LD 735, “An Act to Protect Sand Dunes on Sears Island and to Establish Criteria for Legislation Regarding Land Development”. FMI: legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/735?legislature=132 If you would like to hear more testimony, check the pages for each bill (links above). Written testimony and audio files of verbal testimony will be posted there by the committee About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith De