Land for Maine’s Future Bond is Good for Business
This November I will be voting in favor of the $5 million bond to fund the Land for Maine’s Future program. Land for Maine’s Future helps conserve working farms, productive forestlands, commercial...
View ArticleConservation Bond Invests in Maine’s Quality of Life
Question 3: Do you favor a $5,000,000 bond issue to purchase land and conservation easements statewide from willing sellers for public land and water access, conservation, wildlife or fish habitat and...
View ArticleMainers Should Say 'Yes' to All Bond Issues
In an era when governments and families alike are trying to reduce debt, it seems harder to make a case for issuing state bonds.But an aversion to borrowing should not stop Mainers from approving four...
View ArticleLand for Maine's Future Board Presses Gov. LePage to Release Bond Funds
Alarmed by the prospect of losing projects to protect vast acreage of forests, farms, waterways and beaches from development, board members of the state's Land for Maine's Future program are calling on...
View ArticleWill Delaying Bond Money Help Maine’s Economy?
Gov. Paul LePage is holding Maine in a position of limbo by failing to specify what he wants to accomplish by not selling voter-approved bonds until 2014. It’s good that he wants to rein in state...
View ArticleLePage Should Issue Land Conservation Bonds
We all know how a bill becomes a law, but when it comes to bond issues in Maine, there is a new step that's not in the civics text.First, people come to state government with an idea for a bond, then...
View ArticleLand For Maine's Future Projects in Jeopardy as Gov Refuses to Authorize...
Conservationists say they've never seen anything like it. As many as two dozen working forests, working farms and outdoor recreation projects around the state could be in jeopardy even though they were...
View ArticleMaine Working to Save Great Blue Heron Colonies
In flight, great blue heron’s wings stretch six feet, tip to tip. Wading through water, the majestic bird stands more than three feet tall. And when it comes to building nests, the heron doesn’t hide...
View ArticleQuimby Buys 8,315 Acres, Including ‘Impressive’ Snowmobile Trail
TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 8, Maine ― Roxanne Quimby’s land company is acquiring another 8,315 acres adjoining Baxter State Park, officials said Monday.The Forestland Group of Chapel Hill, N.C.,...
View ArticleThe Day the Animals Left Maine
YARMOUTH, Maine - They haven't left yet, but where will Maine's animals - and plants - go if the global climate continues warming? And which will be moving up to Maine from the south? Scientists and...
View ArticleGovernor Still Rebuffing Citizens' Desire to Conserve Precious Land
Gov. Paul LePage's stubborn obstructionism and refusal to sell Land for Maine's Future bonds stifles the will of the people and jeopardizes critically important conservation and recreation projects...
View ArticleMaine Lawmaker Seeks More Eminent Domain Protections for Landowners
A long-running battle over a possible east-west highway in Maine is the driving force behind a proposed amendment to the state Constitution. The amendment would give property owners more protections...
View ArticleNew Studies Show National Park Would Boost Maine’s Economy, Quimby’s Son Says
BANGOR, Maine — Economic studies commissioned by Roxanne Quimby’s land-holdings company show that a 75,000-acre national park and same-size recreation area in the Katahdin region would create 450-1,055...
View ArticleStudies Commissioned By Quimby Show Economic Benefits of National Parks
Two studies commissioned by philanthropist Roxanne Quimby's foundation suggest that a national park in northern Maine could boost tourism, jobs and personal income in the region. Specifically, the...
View ArticleIs a National Park in Maine Worth It?
For years now, people who support the creation of a national park in the Katahdin region have said a park would produce economic benefits for Maine and local towns. Opponents have argued, meanwhile,...
View ArticleNational Park Studies Change Terms of Debate
A pair of economic studies should change the debate over whether a national park makes sense for northern Maine.Until last week, the conflict had been cast as a clash between competing views of...
View ArticleCommitted to Listening, Learning and Creating a National Park
Maine’s northern woods are changing, and those changes have created an unprecedented time of uncertainty and transition.Large tracts of former timberlands are being bought and sold, as the nature of...
View ArticleLack of Deer Yards are Cause of Low Deer Numbers
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,...
View ArticleTestimony In Opposition to LD 269, An Act To Increase Opportunities on the...
Good afternoon Sen. Jackson, Rep. Dill, and members of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee. My name is Lisa Pohlmann. I am here today on behalf of the 12,000 members and supporters of...
View ArticleBills Repeal Use of Eminent Domain in Maine
AUGUSTA — A quiver of bills before the state Legislature's Judiciary Committee make it nearly impossible for private companies to benefit from the state's ability to take private lands for public use,...
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