Nov 17, 2011 | Editorials, National Park
By Michael Beardsley, Special to the BDN Despite the rhetoric from Roxanne Quimby and other park supporters about jobs, when you look at the facts, a national park is a bad idea for Maine, it is certainly no gift. As good stewards of the forest, our loggers have...
Nov 4, 2011 | National Park, PLC Members in the News
“Despite the rhetoric from Roxanne Quimby and other park supporters about jobs, when you look at the facts, a National Park is a bad idea for Maine,” said Mike Beardsley, Executive Director for the Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine. PLC is a trade...
Aug 19, 2011 | Business Impact, National Park, News
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Federal feasibility studies recommend against 50 percent of the proposed parks they study, and the dimensions of Roxanne Quimby’s proposed North Woods National Park would be controlled by laws and legislatures, not bureaucrats bent on controlling...
Aug 4, 2011 | National Park
MEDWAY, Maine — Several town officials have formed a committee that will work in tandem with environmentalist and entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby to push Congress to authorize a feasibility study of her plan to turn 70,000 acres adjoining Baxter State Park into a national...
Jul 22, 2011 | Call to Action, Editorials, Environmental, Federal Regulations, National Park
By Cheryl H. Russell, Special to the BDN The noose is getting tighter. I attended the recent meeting in Millinocket where I listened to Roxanne Quimby extol the virtues of a Maine Woods or North Woods National Park. Mayors from Estes Park and Grand Lake, Colo., were...
Jul 22, 2011 | Business Impact, Call to Action, Environmental, Federal Regulations, National Park
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff MILLINOCKET, Maine — The Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce supports a study of the feasibility of creating a national park near Baxter State Park, its president said Wednesday. With members Deb Roundtree and Thomas Malcolm absent, the...
