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
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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
LURC Board Unanimously Rejects Moosehead Lake Development
NRCM news release Today at their public meeting in Dover Foxcroft, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission voted 5-0 to unanimously reject a proposed 70 lot subdivision at Burnt Jacket Mountain on Moosehead Lake. This discussion and vote is seen by many as indicative of how LURC might proceed during their deliberation on Plum Creek’s Read More
All Mainers Have Stake in Plum Creek as Public Caretakers
MAINE VOICES: Wendy Weiger Maine Sunday Telegram As a resident of the Moosehead Lake region, I know the development proposal that Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Trust is submitting to the Land Use Regulation Commission is likely only one of many that will affect our region over the next few years. Before these proposals are Read More
NRCM Criticizes Plum Creek Public Relations Blitz
Calls PR Campaign an “Insult to Maine People” The Natural Resources Council of Maine today criticized Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation for conducting a massive public relations campaign in support of its development plans for the Moosehead Lake region before making the actual details of their plan public. “Plum Creek has staged two Read More
NRCM Responds to March 30th Plum Creek Announcement
Today’s announcement proposes an interesting framework for conservation in the Moosehead Lake region, but Maine people are still in the dark about how Plum Creek will scale back its massive, sprawling development scheme. Although we are encouraged by elements of today’s announcement, it is premature to judge this proposal until we know how much Plum Read More
Council’s Moosehead Vision Not the Last Word
Maine Sunday Telegram editorial The Natural Resources Council of Maine deserves credit for drafting a conceptual alternative to Plum Creek’s massive development scenario for the Moosehead Lake region. Some may consider it presumptuous for the council, Maine’s largest environmental group, to try to influence development on private holdings. NRCM officials, however, stress that the document Read More
