Jym St. Pierre of Brunswick, Maine, has been an NRCM member for nearly 50 years. He has been going to Baxter State Park even longer. His photo shows NRCM’s former Forests & Wildlife Program Director Cathy Johnson paddling with friends on Katahdin Lake toward Maine’s greatest mountain last month.
Mount Katahdin
My Maine This Week: David Preston
NRCM member David Preston of China Village, Maine, shares some of his summer photos with us this week. David, like many Mainers, explored our beautiful state this summer since most of us stayed close to home or at least within the state to do our traveling. Thank you, David, for sharing your stunning photos with Read More
My Maine This Week: Jennifer Dillon
We often ask our new My Maine This Week photographers how they heard about us, and this week, we are excited to hear that our newest My Maine photographer, Jennifer Dillon, of North Yarmouth, Maine, heard about us at her place of work! She tells us that she and her co-workers get a daily news Read More
Tour Maine’s Newest and Largest Parcel of Federal Land
By Murray Carpenter New York Times story On an early fall day, with just a hint of red tinting the maples, the view from the summit of Deasey Mountain is spectacular. To the west stand the rugged, treeless basins and knife-edge spine of Mount Katahdin. Off to the south, you see Wassataquoik Valley in the near Read More
Secretary of the Interior: Maine Land Worthy of National Monument
By Marissa Bodnar WGME 13 news story PATTEN (WGME) — A member of President Obama’s Cabinet explored the site of the nation’s newest national monument over the weekend, testing out the water and hiking trails. CBS 13 was the only television crew along for the tour. Lucas St. Clair wasn’t sure the day would ever Read More
Maine Land From Burt’s Bees Founder Is New National Monument
By David Sharp news writer The Associated Press news story Portland, Maine • President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new national monument in northern Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s goal of gifting the land during the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. The Read More
My Maine This Week: Kevin Hardwick
“Here are a few photos from a recent trip to Baxter State Park. The photos were taken from Chimney Pond and from the summit of Baxter and Hamlin Peaks.” —Photos by NRCM supporter Kevin Hardwick of Wiscasset, Maine To see past My Maine This Week photos, or to submit a photo of your own to be Read More
My Maine This Week: Wendy Weiger
Wendy Weiger is a physician who left the halls of academe for the wilds of northern Maine. The Maine Woods have become her home, step by step and paddle stroke by paddle stroke, as she’s journeyed thousands of miles up mountains and down rivers—often traveling solo—in all seasons. She lives in Greenville, at the southern Read More
Remote Town Could Offer the Road to Recreation
Forty miles northeast of Millinocket, Patten pines to be the gateway into Katahdin Woods & Waters. By Tux Turkel, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story PATTEN — Think about the hub of the Katahdin region and Millinocket probably comes to mind. The down-on-its-luck, former paper mill town and its neighbor, East Millinocket, are ground Read More
