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
Allagash River
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
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
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
