download Save Moosehead flyer (pdf file)

Listen to "The Ballad of Moosehead Lake"

CURRENT STATUS

On April 27, 2007 Plum Creek submitted a new rezoning and development plan to the Land Use Regulation Commission for 408,000 acres of its ownership around Moosehead Lake. The new plan:

• continues to include 975 subdivision lots
• doubles the amount of land zoned for development to 22,000 acres, which will actually allow for thousands of subdivision lots
• still proposes develpment of two major resorts, and incresases the size of both along with satellite resort zones.
• increases the number of "resort accommodations" from 750 to 1050
• adds the development of energy facilities as an allowable use in the easement areas on the west side of Moosehead Lake
• rezones 33 miles of shoreline for development
• reduces the number of subdivision lots on shorelines
• increases the acres of working forest easement from 72,000 acres to 90,000 acres.

Save Moosehead: Stop Plum Creek’s Wilderness Sprawl

Plum Creek Development Plan Fact Sheet

Testimony of 16 expert witnesses for RESTORE: The North Woods and the Forest Ecology Network

RESTORE: The North Woods and the Forest Ecology Network file a Motion to Dismiss Plum Creek's Moosehead rezoning plan (pdf file)

Jym St. Pierre's Statement on the Motion to Dismiss

Proposed Concept Plan for the Moosehead Lake Region

Plum Creek’s Revised Moosehead Plan Is More of the Same

Promises Made and Broken

Canada Lynx and Plum Creek

Chronology of Events in Plum Creek’s Development Proposal

Map of Plum Creek’s Proposed Moosehead Development Plan

Land Ownership Change in Maine 1994-2005

FEN & RESTORE's Final Brief

Steps That Drive Change in Land Value

TAKE ACTION! Stop Plum Creek’s Wilderness Sprawl

ALTERNATIVES

Wilderness Economics - A Model for the Future

Wilderness Economics - A Model for the Future

Maine Woods Park Proposal At-a-Glance



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