[at-l] Buffer around Baxter?

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Buffer considered around Baxter Park 
Here's a bit from two newspapers, the entire stories are at the links. 
At the Friends Of Baxter 
http://www.friendsofbaxter.org/main.htm 
meeting this weekend, the Director expressed concerns about abuses by 
snowmobile users, and a large buffer was suggested around the Park. He also says the 
Perimeter road will be open May 15th.

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Writer calls for buffer at Baxter

http://www.bangornews.com/editorial...e.cfm/ID/420380


WATERVILLE - The Baxter State Park experience might be enhanced if a buffer 
were developed around its boundaries, Dean Bennett, noted wilderness writer and 
University of Maine at Farmington professor, said Saturday.Bennett, 
addressing the annual meeting of the Friends of Baxter State Park at Governor's 
Restaurant, applauded the purchase last year of a 24,000-acre township adjacent to 
the 200,000-acre park by Roxanne Quimby. Similar purchases, which limit logging 
and development, would benefit the park, he said.

Bennett said he asked longtime park Director Buzz Caverly to identify 
potential threats to the park. They are: [in part]

- Aircraft noise, particularly low-flying sightseeing and wildlife 
observation flights;

- Radio antennas, solar power panels, communication devices and other 
technology that has affected the park's primitive nature.
[Buzz also mentions removal of cabins and buildings]

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Snowmobiles seen as problem in wilderness park

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ilderness_park/

4/11/2004

WATERVILLE, Maine -- Snowmobiles have become a problem in Baxter State Park, 
its director says.

The speed of the machines is an issue in some cases, Buzz Caverly said, and 
some snowmobiles are going where they're not allowed. Snowmobiling is permitted 
only along the park's Tote Road.

Caverly spoke Saturday at the annual meeting of the Friends of Baxter State 
Park, an independent citizens' group working to preserve, support and enhance 
the 200,000-acre park's wilderness character.

In his brief "state of the park" remarks, he said 2003 was a successful year, 
with nearly 65,000 park visitors, of whom about 36,000 were from Maine.

The keynote speaker was longtime wilderness advocate Dean Bennett, author and 
professor emeritus at the University of Maine at Farmington, who spoke of 
growing pressures that work against the preservation and protection of wild 
areas.
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TJ

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