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Acadia's Precipice Trail reopens

The Precipice Trail, the Valley Cove Trail and the Jordan Cliffs Trail are usually closed for part of each summer because of nesting peregrine falcon chicks.
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FILE - A pair of young peregrine falcons stare at University of California Santa Cruz biologist Glenn Stewart before being banded in their nest on the 33rd floor of the PG&E building in San Francisco, in this May 12, 2009 file photo. After decades of scrambling on the underside of California bridges to pluck endangered peregrine falcon fledglings teetering in ill-placed nests, inseminating female birds and releasing captive-raised chicks, wildlife biologists have been so successful in bringing back the powerful raptors that they now threaten Southern California’s endangered shorebird breeding sites. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Acadia National Park says the popular Precipice Trail is open now that nine peregrine falcon chicks have left their nests.

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The Precipice Trail, the Valley Cove Trail and the Jordan Cliffs Trail are usually closed for part of each summer because of nesting peregrine falcon chicks.

A spokeswoman tells the Bangor Daily News that four peregrine falcon chicks fledged at the Precipice on the east face of Champlain Mountain; three at Jordan Cliffs; and two at Valley Cove over Somes Sound.

For now, Valley Cove Trail remains closed because of deteriorated walls, stone steps, and tread support structures. It's expected to reopen in the fall.

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