|
|
Post by bradmacmt on Aug 26, 2016 3:41:27 GMT -8
|
|
tomas
Trail Wise!
Posts: 1,906 
|
Post by tomas on Aug 26, 2016 7:39:53 GMT -8
Now that is wicked cool news.
|
|
Westy
Trail Wise!
Diagnosed w/Post-Trail Transition Syndrome
Posts: 1,962
|
Post by Westy on Aug 26, 2016 7:55:09 GMT -8
Long, long time coming. Several decades ago there was a movement for a Great North Woods National Park. Have signed up for their newsletters regarding plans for the KWWNM. Like to see some multi-day x-country specific ski trails on abandoned logging roads. Thank you President Obama, please make Bears Ears NM you next executive order! |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2016 9:30:44 GMT -8
Regrettably, I've never been to Maine. But I'm glad to see another part of it preserved for the future.
|
|
FamilySherpa
Trail Wise!
Tangled up in Rhododendron
Posts: 1,791
|
Post by FamilySherpa on Aug 26, 2016 10:10:06 GMT -8
I'd love to go to Maine one day.
& brad, thanks for posting these articles. Its nice to read some good news every now and again.
|
|
|
|
Post by High Sierra Fan on Aug 26, 2016 15:40:33 GMT -8
Ha. Seems the Governor is not pleased.
"That’s one way to get out of paying taxes to the state of Maine,” LePage said in a statement on Tuesday. “It’s also an ego play for Roxanne Quimby and Sen. Angus King. It’s sad that rich, out-of-state liberals can team up with President Obama to force a national monument on rural Mainers who do not want it. As I’ve said all along, the fix is in.”"
Otoh as a devout Republican I'd have thought he'd applaud people seeking to not pay taxes?
As to the monument itself has there been any explanation as to why she didn't simply add to Baxter State Park? The land appears to be contiguous so I'd have thought that a natural route.
|
|
johnnyray
Trail Wise!
Argle-Bargle, Jiggery-Pokery, and Applesauce
Posts: 2,050
|
Post by johnnyray on Aug 26, 2016 17:26:30 GMT -8
Interesting that the major opponents are from the conservative side. Typically they are supporters of private property rights. Who's to say someone can't gift their property to the Nation?
|
|
|
|
Post by bradmacmt on Aug 28, 2016 13:30:29 GMT -8
Well, for me, this is not about the Obama Administration, or any other administration, it's about one person that had the drive to put up her resources to acquire this land and donate it. She wanted it to be a National Park (an idea I'm not in favor of), but compromised with a National Monument. GOOD FOR HER. May her tribe increase...
Travis, you owe it to yourself to see the state of Maine... truly one of the finest treasures in the lower 48.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2016 18:32:11 GMT -8
Travis, you owe it to yourself to see the state of Maine... truly one of the finest treasures in the lower 48. I believe you. I've heard a lot of good things about that state and its coastline. Definitely something I want to do. |
|
RumiDude
Trail Wise!
Marmota olympus
Posts: 2,361
|
Post by RumiDude on Aug 28, 2016 21:40:10 GMT -8
We are hoping to travel to and spend an extended amount of time exploring all that New England has to offer. That will undoubtedly include this new National Monument. We also hope to get up into the eastern provinces of Canada, especially Newfoundland.
I saw this on my FB feed, but thanks Brad for including it here.
Rumi
|
|
|
|
Post by High Sierra Fan on Aug 29, 2016 2:49:27 GMT -8
A description: www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2016/08/promising-future-katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monumentGros Morne is spectacular but the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia isn't to be missed either. Also L'Anse Aux Meadows if you're into that sort of thing. ETA: National Park status I believe has to be conveyed by Congress. Unilateral presidential authority only extends to designating national monuments via the Antiquities Act of 1906, (Pub.L. 59–209, 34 Stat. 225, 16 U.S.C. § 431–433). |
|
tomas
Trail Wise!
Posts: 1,906
|
Post by tomas on Aug 29, 2016 12:22:36 GMT -8
Travis, you owe it to yourself to see the state of Maine... truly one of the finest treasures in the lower 48 Totally agree, there is no ugly part of the state; it is all beautiful. |
|
|
|
Post by hikingtiger on Aug 29, 2016 19:04:21 GMT -8
Hadn't seen anything here about Roxanne Quimby's remarkable land gifts I'd read about it somewhere recently, but hadn't heard that it finally went through. Thanks for posting the links. |
|
walkswithblackflies
Trail Wise!
Resident terrorist-supporting eco-freak bootlicker
Posts: 6,952
|
Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 30, 2016 5:17:40 GMT -8
As a backpacker, it is great news. But reading into it, it sure seems messy on the local level.
|
|
|
|
Post by bradmacmt on Aug 30, 2016 12:23:22 GMT -8
As a backpacker, it is great news. But reading into it, it sure seems messy on the local level. I'm writing this looking out over Teton National Park, a park whose inception was also "messy on the local level." Not everything best for the whole is ideal for the individual. |
|
