[at-l] Call for National Park in Maine

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The 'Maine' source for comprehensive Maine environmental news is the Maine 
Environmental Policy Institute's website: http://www.meepi.org/ 

recent stories linked:

Creating a national park in the state's north woods could help reawaken the 
nation's slumbering conservation movement (Portland Press Herald, 1/21/04)
ROCKPORT ? One of Maine's largest individual landowners says she believes 
that creating a national park in the state's north woods could help reawaken the 
nation's slumbering conservation movement. "We need to sell the agenda of the 
environment to the 80 percent of Americans now who don't know and don't care," 
said Roxanne Quimby, who made a fortune as founder of Burt's Bees, an 
all-natural cosmetics business.

Maine forestlands in times of change 
Friday, January 21, 2005 - Bangor Daily News 
ROCKPORT - Maine's North Woods are in a time of transition with huge swaths 
of land changing hands almost weekly, paper mills struggling to survive in a 
new global market, and multimillion-dollar homes being constructed inside a vast 
wilderness. But precisely what Maine should do to shape the future of this 
northwesterly third of our state inspired debate among six prominent 
conservationists at Thursday's annual winter meeting of the Maine State Bar Association. 
Roxanne Quimby, co-founder of Burt's Bees and, more recently, the best known 
and most vilified proponent of a Maine Woods National Park, said Thursday she 
still believes federal recognition would give the region the best chance of 
protecting its ecological and economic interests. 
"A national park brings national attention," Quimby said, citing a park's 
ability to "sell" environmental values to the majority of Americans who don't 
consider the natural world a priority. "It's about selling the environment to a 
population that's either in denial or asleep at the wheel," she said

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