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A change in Roxannes tactics does not mean a change in her/RESTORE's agenda. People are not that stupid.

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70,000 or 3.2 Million Which is it?

1. BANGOR DAILY NEWS July 10 2001- ‘ The land she has bought so far generally will be left alone so it can recover from heavy logging, she said. In the future, campgrounds and visitor centers could be built on some parcels. She hopes ultimately to donate the land she buys to the federal government for inclusion in the proposed national park.

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2. BANGOR DAILY NEWS July 10 2001 ‘Quimby, 50, is a member of RESTORE's board of directors. Like a modern-day Percival Baxter, she hopes to nudge the park from dream to reality by buying up the land herself.

3. BANGOR DAILY NEWS July 10 2001 In fact, she said, ‘very few people derive a living from the woods. She says most people do as she did before she became a wealthy businesswoman: They cut some wood, farm some vegetables, make some crafts to sell at fairs’.

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4. AMERICANS FOR A MAINE WOODS NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE ANNOUNCED 2003- Formation of a new group of national leaders called “Americans for a Maine Woods National Park” has been announced by its Co-Chairs Will LaPage and Roxanne Quimby. To date, 110 distinguished Americans from many walks of life have joined this national advisory committee in order to promote the proposed 3.2 Million acre Maine Woods National Park and Preserve

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5. Maine Enviormental News 11/24/2003. ‘Her goal is to buy as much forestland as possible, help it become truly wild and donate the land for a national park. The environmental organization RESTORE: The North Woods is working to establish a 3.2 million-acre national park and preserve around "forever wild" Baxter State Park. Quimby has been a public advocate of RESTORE’s effort’.

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6. National Geographic News Feb. 2004- Americans for a Maine Woods National Park, an interest group that was founded by RESTORE: The North Woods, a conservation organization that's spearheading a protection plan for an enormous swath of woodlands in the U.S. East. The proposed national park would encompass 3.2 million acres (1.3 million hectares), an area larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined.

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7. Northern Sky News June 2004- She recently left the board of RESTORE, and is now active with a group called Americans for a Maine Woods National Park. The group is actively working to get more people outside northern Maine interested in the park proposal.

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8. Northern Sky News June 2004-“We have attempted to take the question out of Maine, certainly out of northern Maine, where there is an enormous backlash but very few people,” says Quimby. “This is a national park, it should be on the national agenda. ... So our strategy is to take it out of Piscataquis and Penobscot counties where it will simply bubble away and nothing will ever happen.”

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9. YANKEE MAGZINE 2008 ‘At the time, Roxanne was on the board of RESTORE: “People up there hate RESTORE, so I put some distance between us at that point. I didn’t need that.”

* As of July 2011 Roxanne Quimby is still listed on the Restore website as calling for a 3.2 million acre park.

10. The Quimby Family Foundation lists RESTORE as one of the beneficiaries of its grants for 2010 and 2011

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11. The Quimby Family Foundation lists the Forest Ecology Network as a grantee for 2005, 2006 and 2008. FEN is one of the organizations calling for a 3.2 Million acre Park.

12. YANKEE MAGZINE 2008 ‘There is nothing more real than real estate, and Roxanne has repeatedly said she would like to see the lands she has acquired become the seeds of a new national park. What she owns now would be a very credible beginning’

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13. RESTORES WEBSITE JULY 2011 “American people love their national parks.”

Ms. Quimby hopes Mr. Spalding and Restore’s [Maine] director, Mr. St. Pierre, are right. The idea of a park, she said, “floats my boat.” She prefers that her 75,000 acres become a base on which Restore’s 3.2-million acre park could be built.

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14. SUN JOURNAL MAY 2011 - I still love the vision of a 3.2-million-acre national park in Maine,” said Quimby, “but I know it’s not going to happen in my lifetime. This is what I can do now.

15. Maine Public Radio 9/21/11 -“I (RQ)feel best about limiting the conversation to land that I own so that's why I'm talking about 70,000 acres and not 3.2 million but theoretically the sky's the limit!

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16. KEEP MAINE BEAUTIFUL WEBSITE (RQ’S WEBSITE AUGUST 2011) - EPI’s ongoing land acquisition efforts, communication with local recreational users to identify their needs, and collaboration with the National Park Service has led Roxanne and her foundation to conclude that federal protection is the best management option for EPI’s lands and the public.

17. Friends of Baxter newsletter Fall 2011 Vol. 10 #4: The total land area Quimby hopes to convey is approximately 140,000 acres.

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18. The National Park Conservation Association website has a page highlighting Roxanne Quimby’s work. It states that the proposal is for 3.2 million acres.

19. Until the fall of 2011 EPI’s website maintained a link to RESTORES website. This was removed after park critics pointed it out.

20. National Parks Traveler magazine also says that the proposal calls for a park of 3.2 million acres created in time for the National Park Service's centennial in 2016

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21. Maine Woods National park website calls for a 3.2 million acre park

22. Maine Woods National Park and Preserve website lists Roxanne Quimby as the Co chair. It states that the proposed park is 3.2 Million acres. Its map is the same as RESTORES map for the park.

matatgamon 1 month ago

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grandisleme 1 month ago

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scotmiller 1 month ago

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momitsdoingitagain 1 month ago

Slated for massive development by who? The great north woods has done pretty well under private land ownership. One of the main reasons is because the land is valuable for logging. This is not a bad thing, this is a good thing. It's an incentive for private land ownership to take care of their land so that continued growth will occur. This is another fine example of the government stepping in to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

spec24 10 months ago

you are right about it being special to maine. i use the land for hunting fishing and camping

redwingderek 1 year ago

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