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...
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...
Jun 23, 2011 | Environmental, Industry News, National Park, News
By Nick Sambides Jr., MILLINOCKET, Maine ― Town leaders will meet today to discuss whether to publicly oppose efforts to turn a vast chunk of the North Woods into a national park, something they last did in 2000. Town Manager Eugene Conlogue said he expects “lively...
Apr 18, 2011 | Industry News, National Park
(AP) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Judging by the reaction of Maine’s congressional delegation, a wealthy conservationist has some convincing to do if she’s to sell her idea of another national park in Maine. While no one rejected Roxanne Quimby’s idea...
Mar 28, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Environmental, National Park
By DAVID SHARP, The Associated Press TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8 — Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt’s Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine’s fabled North Woods – and had the...
