Stories about Baxter State Park
Baxter State Park opens some roads, fishing spots
BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine — A moderate winter has allowed Baxter State Park officials to gratify fishermen and fiddlehead gatherers by opening several park roads this week, Director Jensen Bissell said Friday. Most roads in the north end of the park and above the treelines leading to Mount Katahdin are ...
Key privately owned parcel offered to Baxter State Park
A timber management company is offering to donate one of the last remaining privately owned parcels of land around Katahdin Lake to Baxter State Park. Five years ago, Baxter State Park officials accepted the deed to roughly 4,000 acres surrounding Katahdin Lake and, in the process, achieved the original vision ...
Quimby’s idea for a national park gathering momentum, supporters say
MEDWAY, Maine — A citizens committee formed to investigate the feasibility of Roxanne Quimby’s proposal to give to the National Park Service 70,000 acres she owns adjacent to Baxter State Park announced Wednesday that 16 groups support having the park service study the proposal’s feasibility. George McLaughlin, co-chairman of the ...
Millinocket schools aim to teach environmental stewardship
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Environmental stewardship will be the common theme of a multidisciplinary course Superintendent Kenneth Smith and town educators hope to assemble for grades four through 12, officials said Monday. The idea, Smith said, is to combine courses including geology, biology, chemistry, physics and earth science into one course ...
Wardens on way to help ill Appalachian Trail hiker
TOWNSHIP 1 RANGE 11, Maine — Wardens from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, along with a warden pilot, were in the process of trying to rescue an ill Appalachian Trail hiker late Thursday in the 100 Mile Wilderness area south of Baxter State Park, according to the Piscataquis ...
LePage won’t take sides on Quimby’s national park plan
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage is watching the debate over Roxanne Quimby’s proposal to turn 70,000 acres adjacent to Baxter State Park into a national park, but has no plans to stake out a position immediately, Conservation Commissioner William Beardsley said Wednesday. “I think he feels that the dialogue ...
EDITORIALS
Don’t Eat the Park
on Aug. 07, 2011, at 4:07 p.m.
New York City’s parks are coping with a new problem that may spread to Maine’s parks: People are busy gathering edible plants like mushrooms, American ginger and elderberries. Park officials say the foraging boom has gotten out of hand and want it to stop. They are training rangers to watch ...
POLL QUESTION
Medway panel pushes for national park feasibility study
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 park, they said Wednesday. The committee, co-chairman ...
Hiker fulfills lifelong dream with trek for cystic fibrosis research
BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine — When Caleb Miller sets his mind to doing something, he doesn’t let much stand in his way, even if his goal means hiking 1,086 rugged miles to a mountaintop 5,268 feet high with about 20 pounds of gear on his back. That’s why the 17-year-old ...
East Millinocket school leaders deadlock on park feasibility study
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The school committee will take no position on having a feasibility study done on environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s proposal to create a 70,000-acre national park next to Baxter State Park, but not willingly. With very little discussion, committee members voted 2-2 on whether to support a feasibility ...
East Millinocket school board weighs plan for national park feasibility study
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The school committee will be the next Katahdin region governmental body to consider whether to support a study of the feasibility of environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s idea of siting a national park next to Baxter State Park, Superintendent Quenten Clark said Monday. The committee will meet at ...
Katahdin Chamber supports national park feasibility study
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 Chamber’s board of directors voted 9-0 on Tuesday to support the study, which ...
Snowe, Collins skeptical of Quimby’s park proposal
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Roxanne Quimby sees a national park as part of her potential legacy and hopes to make a gift of 70,000 acres for a park to the federal government in 2016. But the millionaire co-founder of Burt’s Bees and noted environmentalist said during a meeting at Stearns High ...
Bangor Hike for the Homeless set for Saturday
BANGOR, Maine — For the first several years the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter’s annual Hike for the Homeless was held, the event was largely invisible, not unlike the homeless population itself. Back in the mid-1990s, the event was truly a hike, first at Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park and ...
Search teams rescue UM student who was hiking on Katahdin trail
MILLINOCKET, Maine — A Madawaska man snowshoeing in Baxter State Park on Saturday spent the night alone in the woods after being separated from his three friends, Park Director Jensen Bissell said Sunday, just hours after the man was found. Chris Dubois, 23, a University of Maine student, hiked Mount ...
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