Summary
State government and Maine's congressional delegation are loathe to show support for a national park plan for the Katahdin region, probably because doing so would risk political opposition with little gain. The federal government, likely in the early years of an extended lean era, will not readily take on the burden of building and maintaining another park, given that budgets for existing national parks are stretched thin.
And among many residents of the region, the park idea is seen as a repudiation of the century-old paper mill economic model and a snubbing of the traditional consumptive recreational uses of the woods.See the full content of this document
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Study Katahdin Opportunities
So if one were inclined to bet on whether a national park will be established in the Katahdin region within the next 20 yea...
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