The Fight for a New National Park in Maine
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Roxanne Quimby (AP Photo)
With the help of millionaire Roxanne Quimby, conservationists want to establish a new national park in Maine to commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.
Quimby made a fortune developing the Burt’s Bees line of personal care products, which she sold to Clorox in 2007 for $925 million. Now she wants to donate 70,000 acres of land she owns in Central Maine, near Baxter State Park, to create the national park by 2016. But the movement is being opposed by snowmobilers who would be banned from their recreational pursuits in the proposed park area.
In an attempt to win the support of the Maine Snowmobile Association for a national park feasibility study, Quimby has offered five years of access to snowmobile trails on other parts of her property.
Snowmobiling is more than sport for Maine. The activity generates revenue for local communities that provide food and lodging to visitors who enjoy the activity in the wintertime. However, creating and operating a national park would also create jobs.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Is The Time Right For A "Maine Woods National Park"? (by Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler)
Quimby Offers Easements to Snowmobilers in Return for Park Support (by Susan Sharon, MPBN News)
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