There is a 4500 acre Refuge on the property, abuts our main runway on the East side.
The Maine Inland Wildlife Dept categorizes the Upland Sandpiper as a "Threatened" species, and will not allow our racing activity during the breeding season of May through July. We have been fortunate that we have been allowed to infringe slightly in both of our events into July, as in one day in 2009, and two days in 2010.
Ideally we had originally planned on holding our event(s) exactly in that three month period until we were informed otherwise.
All of the arguments regarding the birds existing happily at other relatively nearby airports, or similar points have been raised before on this list, and we have dozens of threads and thousands of posts to search on it if you are that interested.
We are currently exploring other dates , notably end of April or a mid September.
Hang in there, we are really on it.
Bob W The LTA Guy