Bangor Daily News news story The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded Maine nearly $1 million to protect habitat critical to some of the state’s threatened and endangered species. The $945,760 grant will help fund conservation projects through Maine’s Landowner Incentive Program, which works with private property owners to preserve high-value habitat that supports Read More
Protecting Maine's Wildlife
The Invisible Danger Facing Our Loons
Kennebec Journal editorial It’s that time of the year when lakeside residents and campers can fall asleep to the lovely and thrilling call of the common loon. Last weekend, volunteers across the state fanned out on lakes for the annual Maine Loon Count. On China Lake, counters sighted a record 21 loons during the breakneck Read More
Land Deals Add to Maine’s Richness
The summer of 2002 was a dark time for Maine’s paper industry, especially the employees of Great Northern Paper in Millinocket, which means it was a dark time for the town of Millinocket. The mill was teetering on the brink of closing, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of people. But then, an unlikely bearer of Read More
Plum Confused
Bangor Daily News editorial The Land Use Regulation Commission is right to separate, as much as possible, a conservation agreement from Plum Creek Timber Co.’s application to rezone thousands of acres around Moosehead Lake for development. The company’s agreement with private groups to conserve more than 300,000 acres in the area is welcome. But it Read More
Moosehead – Furor in the Forest
Special Report By Jeff Clark Down East Magazine August 2006 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 Read More
Our Waters and the Wildlife That Depend on Them Are at Risk
MAINE VOICES: Brownie Carson and Larry Schweiger Brownie Carson and Larry Schweiger, special to the Telegram Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed Over 30 years ago, with the Cuyahoga River in Ohio so polluted it caught fire and Lake Erie dead, our waters were in crisis and many could not support fisheries, waterfowl or other wildlife. Congress Read More
Environmental group criticizes Plum Creek PR
Lewiston Sun Journal news story PORTLAND (AP) – Plum Creek Timber Co.’s public relations offensive in support of its revised Moosehead Lake proposal is coming under fire by Maine’s largest environmental group. Pete Didisheim of the Natural Resources Council of Maine says Plum Creek has aired television ads and hired public relations professionals and lobbyists Read More
Plum Creek TV ads draw fire
By John Richardson, Portland Press Herald Writer Portland Press Herald news story Plum Creek Timber Co. has yet to submit a formal plan to the state for developing and conserving land around Moosehead Lake, but it has begun promoting the plan’s benefits. The company is following a pair of major announcements with TV ads touting Read More
Plum Creek given new public proposal
Bangor Daily News news story GREENVILLE – Plum Creek Timber Co. has been presented with yet another public proposal of just how it should develop its land in the Moosehead Lake region. The latest contribution is a map devised by the Moosehead Region Futures Committee, a volunteer organization representing people who live throughout the 400,000 Read More
