by Ron Joseph Bangor Daily News op-ed If bones from dead deer could talk, they would reveal compelling stories. In late March 1989, snowmobilers reported several dead and frozen deer in a Canada Falls deer yard near historic Pittston Farm, 50 miles northwest of Greenville. As the state’s regional wildlife biologist at the time, I Read More
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Area Around Moosehead Should Be Preserved for All to Enjoy
The region’s primitive beauty deserves protection similar to that given Mount Katahdin. By John Radebaugh Portland Press Herald op-ed I was shocked that the Plum Creek proposal received approval from the Maine Judicial Court on March 15 to develop the Moosehead Lake area, allowing 821 house lots and more than l,200 housing units in the Big Read More
Court Upholds Plum Creek Approval
Mainebiz news story The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the 2009 approval of Plum Creek Timber Co.’s development in the Moosehead region. The decision overturns a superior court ruling that said LURC broke its own rules in approving the development, according to a press release from Maine Attorney General William Schneider. The Maine Superior Read More
Plum Creek Development Gets OK from Supreme Court
By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story PORTLAND, Maine â Maine’s highest court on Thursday ruled that state regulators followed proper procedures when approving Plum Creek’s historic development plan for the Moosehead Lake region. The state supreme court disagreed with a lower court that had ordered the Land Use Regulation Commission to Read More
Court Strikes Down Plum Creek Plan
Statement by NRCM Executive Director Lisa Pohlmann We are pleased and gratified by the Superior Court’s decision today to strike down the Land Use Regulation Commission’s approval of Plum Creek’s massive development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region. The plan calls for 2,000 resort and vacation home units scattered around Moosehead Lake. In his ruling, Read More
Judge Stops Development of 17,000 Acres in Northern Maine
WGME TV news story A Maine Superior Court Judge overturned a decision Thursday that would have allowed Plum Creek to turn thousands of acres of land in northern Maine into residential units and resorts. Justice Thomas Humphrey ruled that the decision, made by the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission in 2009, had essentially violated the Read More
Court Hears Challenge to Plum Creek Development Project OK
by Josie Huang MPBN radio news story It’s been more than a year, since the state approved one of the largest development projects in Maine’s history–a plan by Plum Creek Timber Company to build two resorts and more than 820 homes in the Moosehead Lake Region. But its approval by the state’s Land Use Regulation Read More
Plum Creek Harvest Too Close to Rare Species of Wintergreen
By Diana Bowley, staff writer Bangor Daily News news story FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, Maine — Plum Creek Timberland’s harvesting in 2009 of an area too close to a rare plant in the Frenchtown area of Piscataquis County is being investigated. The timber company advised the Forest Society of Maine on Monday that it had harvested within Read More
Plum Creek’s Apology Gets Mixed Responses
By Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA, Maine — Plum Creek’s recent apology for an illegal clear-cut is generating mixed responses from organizations involved in the contentious debate over the company’s Moosehead Lake development plan. Earlier this week, Maine Forest Service officials announced they had fined Plum Creek $38,675 for a 2008 logging Read More
