In May, 2010, members of the Natural Resources Council of Maine joined Executive Director Brownie Carson for five days on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. This video captures fun and adventure in this spectacular piece of Maine’s North Woods. (Produced by Allison Wells)
Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Allagash River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers
Wild and Scenic Protections Threatened The people of Maine realized they needed a State policy to save their own wilderness areas. They petitioned their elected representatives to protect the last great wild river in the eastern United States, and the Maine legislature responded by creating the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, so that the people could own Read More
New Direction for Allagash
Bangor Daily News editorial It would be naive to think that a proposed advisory council for the Allagash Wilderness Waterway will end the decades of disagreement, which has gotten more heated in recent years, over the river. Instead, the advisory council will provide a forum to express, and in some instances, resolve disagreements while allowing Read More
Report Aims to Ease Conflict Over Waterway Management
By Francis X. Quinn, Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story AUGUSTA – It might be possible to resolve conflicting views on how to manage the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, but it would require more cooperation and communication between various interest groups, an advisory group said Thursday in a new report. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Working Read More
Allagash Task Force Presents Findings
By Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA – Gov. John Baldacci and members of a state panel on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway said Thursday they hope a set of recommended management changes will help settle long-standing disputes over the scenic river. After more than seven months of work, members of the Allagash task Read More
Suit filed over access to Allagash
By Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story Last spring, frustrated environmentalists predicted it was only a matter of time before the fight over access to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway ended up back in court. It took about 10 months. Two Maine residents filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bangor seeking to nullify Read More
Maine Wilderness: Beyond the Allagash Battles
by Robert Kimber Kennebec Journal op-ed An editorial that appeared in these pages not many weeks ago suggested that the conflict around management of the Allagash will never subside until Maine’s political leadership screws up enough political courage to abide by the governing statutes for the waterway and enforce management policies that in fact “preserve, Read More
Allagash Wilderness Waterway Deserves Stronger Protection
By Dean and Sheila Bennett Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, it is important to recognize and appreciate what the voters of Maine did in November 1966 when they approved a bond issue to develop the maximum wilderness character of the land Read More
Progress on the Allagash
Bangor Daily News editorial When environmentalists and residents of northern Maine agree on anything related to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, it is a momentous occasion. That’s why proposals, which are the same in principle but differ in detail, to create a commission to oversee and make management decisions for the waterway offer a positive way Read More
