Maine
Highlights
- Project Highlight: Higgins Beach
- Project Highlight: Branch Lake
- Agreements Would Conserve Branch Lake Property
- Permanent Public Access to Higgins Beach Secured
- 10,000 Acres of Stowe Mountain and Robinson Peak Lands Protected
- TPL Maine in the News
Programs
- Portland Bayside Promenade Project (ME)
- Penobscot Valley Community Greenprint
- White Mountains Conservation Initiative
- Working Waterfront Program
- Northern Forest Program
Featured Story
The Maine Way
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| Photo: George Wuerthner/Lighthawk |
At odds over conservation and forest access, residents of northern Maine talk their way toward a new regional future.
By Todd Wilkinson
Gene Conlogue, the affable town manager of Millinocket, Maine, recalls a time when ambitious high school graduates were practically guaranteed jobs at local paper mills. With the wages they earned, workers could support their families, squirrel away enough savings for retirement, and maybe lease or own a vacation cabin in the moose-filled woods. But today, Conlogue's friendly city of 5,000 people on the West Branch of the Penobscot River is in a struggle for survival.
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