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
Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Allagash Suffers Under a New Law
Lewiston Sun Journal editorial Perhaps, it seems, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is destined to become just a long, skinny state park, complete with parking lots and bathhouses. We hope not, and we think most Mainers would be aghast at the idea. Yet, while attention was focused on adding the Katahdin Lake area to Baxter State Read More
Allagash Use Focus of New Task Force
Allagash Bill Rekindles Access Feud
By John Richardson, Staff Writer Maine Sunday Telegram news story AUGUSTA — Paddlers come from all over the country to experience the wildness and peacefulness of the Allagash River. But 40 years after Maine voters designated it as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the politics surrounding the storied river are anything but peaceful. Maine’s Legislature is Read More
‘River Drivers Agreement’ Endangered
Dr. Paul Liebow Bangor Daily News A sneaky move is afoot in Augusta to undo the famed “River Drivers Agreement” – an artful compromise worked out and signed by multiple stakeholders to balance both remoteness and access to the Wild and Scenic River known around the world as the Allagash. Citizens should contact their legislators Read More
Compromise Adds Access
Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA – Lawmakers hoping to avoid another protracted cultural war over the Allagash Wilderness Waterway have reworked a bill to guarantee several sites to access and cross the protected area. Members of a legislative committee are expected to vote today on a draft of a bill that, if enacted, would Read More
Residents Weigh in on Allagash Plan
Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA – Hours before sunrise Friday, Colleen McBreairty and three family members got into a car and began the nearly six-hour drive from Allagash to Augusta to deliver a message. “The Allagash River is not someone else’s playground, it is our heritage,” McBreairty told a committee of lawmakers considering a Read More
What Does It All Mean?
By Dave Sherwood Morning Sentinel news story pssst. Have you heard? “Traditional use” of land in Maine is under attack: By pending legislation, by political campaigns, special interest groups, land sales, nonprofits and people from “away.”If you’re like most Mainers, you’ve got your own idea of what “traditional use” is and isn’t, and just the Read More
Circling the Allagash
Bangor Daily News editorial A stakeholders group failed to solidify agreement over the management of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. So did an advisory committee and a legal settlement with the federal government. Now, state lawmakers are being asked to step in. If legislators want to be helpful, they should not hurriedly pass a bill that Read More
