New national monument in Maine - Katahdin Woods And Waters

[Old Crow]

87,500 acres adjacent to Maine's Baxter State Park (and Mount Katahdin, northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail)

Maine Public Broadcasting article

National Park Service brochure for Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

Recreation map of it

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Nice gift from Burt's Bees! Thank you Roxanne Quimbey!

 

[smlobx]

I've spent some time in the Great North Woods a couple of years ago and it is true wilderness...

I have read that some people were vehemently opposed to it but I can't for the life of me understand why. The area is pretty economically depressed since most of the paper mills and logging shut down several decades ago...