Stories about Maine Woods National Park
Quimby to discuss national park plan in Medway
MEDWAY, Maine — Town leaders have approved of it already and now they want residents to decide for themselves whether to support a feasibility study of environmentalist Roxanne Quimby‘s proposed 70,000-acre national park. The Board of Selectmen will host Quimby at a town meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roxanne Quimby says national park would create tourism jobs
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Roxanne Quimby sees a national park as a jobs creator, not an employment killer. Speaking before more than 200 people at Stearns High School on Monday, the noted environmentalist and cofounder of the Burt’s Bees business empire presented a vision of the Katahdin region transformed by the ...
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Roxanne Quimby to visit Millinocket to discuss plans for land
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Noted environmentalist and Maine national park advocate Roxanne Quimby will make a rare public appearance on May 5 to discuss her land holdings, officials said Tuesday. The meeting at the Northern Maine Timber Cruisers Clubhouse on Lake Road will begin at 6:30 p.m. It is probably the ...
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