Bangor Daily News news story FORT KENT – Local residents widely praised the work of an Allagash Wilderness Waterway task force Monday and proposed several options for improving management of the public resource. Several dozen people attended the second of two public hearings held in Aroostook County in recent days by the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Read More
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Protection of Maine’s natural, remote areas was one of the issues for which NRCM was founded in 1959. More than 60 years later, much progress has been made but major threats to Maine’s land and water resources continue.
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Legal Muscle Lined Up for Plum Creek Battle
By Gregory D. Kesich, Portland Press Herald writer Portland Press Herald news story Plum Creek Timber Co.’s proposal to rezone more than 400,000 acres in the Moosehead Lake region promises to be the biggest development in Maine history, and the fight about its approval promises to be one of the state’s most complicated legal battles. Read More
Plum Creek Holding Conservation Hostage to Development
COLUMN: Theo Stein Portland Press Herald op-ed Is it or isn’t it? Is Plum Creek’s much-ballyhooed “conservation framework” part of its application to the Land Use Regulation Commission for an unprecedented rezoning around Moosehead Lake — or isn’t it? Is Plum Creek’s demand that LURC approve its 975-lot, two-resort development plan before conservation groups pay Read More
LURC Questions Plum Creek on Resorts, Housing
Bangor Daily News news story Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission has asked Plum Creek Timber Co. for more information on the resorts, affordable housing, and roads proposed in the company’s subdivision plans for Moosehead Lake. LURC staff also billed Plum Creek more than $141,000 – on top of the $128,000 already paid by the Seattle Read More
Moosehead — Furor in the Forest
By Jeff Clark Down East Magazine Plum Creek is proposing the largest development in Maine history around Moosehead Lake. Is this the end of the North Woods or its economic salvation? Either way northern Maine will never be the same. Luke Muzzy figures that twenty years from now the people of Greenville will either consider Read More
LURC Seeking Clarification of Plum Creek Plan
Bangor Daily News news story State regulators are urging Plum Creek to be more transparent about the details of a land conservation deal tied to the company’s controversial development plans for Moosehead Lake. Back in March, Plum Creek Timber Co. held a high-profile press event in Augusta to unveil a proposal to protect more than Read More
Plum Foolish
By Ted Williams Audubon Magazine If the plan for Maine’s biggest development ever goes through, it could spell disaster for millions of acres of forestland across the northeast. For 40 years I’ve been collecting images from Maine’s north woods: the unbroken canopy of green flashing past as my crewmates from the old Kennebec Log Drive Read More
Groups and Local Residents Raise Concerns About Plum Creek’s Massive Development Proposal
* Natural Resources Council of Maine * Maine Audubon * AUGUSTA—At a State House news conference today, the executive directors of Maine’s two leading environmental organizations were joined by Moosehead Lake-area business owners and residents in detailing their serious concerns about Plum Creek’s revised development plan. Seattle-based Plum Creek, a Real Estate Investment Trust and Read More
NRCM Statement about Plum Creek’s Revised Plan
Over the past month, the staff at the Natural Resources Council of Maine has carefully evaluated Plum Creek’s 1,000+-page revised proposal for development around Moosehead Lake. We have met with many residents of the Moosehead Lake region to hear their reactions to the new plan. We have visited almost every single location that the company Read More
