Digital Commons Network^™

Maine’S Public Estate And Conservation Lands: Brief History And Assessment, Lloyd C. Irland

Maine Policy Review

In contrast to other northeastern states, the first conservation movement at the turn of the twentieth century passed Maine by. New Deal conservation programs likewise had little impact here, though several seeds were sown. In a state where public access to open rural land and North Woods lakes and rivers was extensively available, there was no perceived need for a public land system. In southern Maine by the 1990s, sprawl and No Trespassing signs became more visible. In the North Woods, large sales of former paper company land shook confidence that public access to land would continue. In a historic …

Mp748: Public Conservation Land And Economic Growth In The Northern Forest Region, David Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga

Miscellaneous Publications

This publication analyzes the impact of publicly owned conservation lands on employment and population growth in the Northern Forest region, defined for the purposes of this study as a group of 92 non-metropolitan counties stretching from Maine to northern Minnesota. The principal objective is to determine if there is a systematic relationship between the share of the land base in public conservation uses and employment growth and net migration rates in Northern Forest counties. The main finding is that public conservation lands had little effect on the growth of local economies over the period 1990 to 1997. Net migration rates …

Proposed Allagash National Recreation Area, United States Department Of Interior, National Park Service

Maine History Documents

Information prepared by the National Park Service explaining their proposal to set aside most of the river course and tributary lakes as the Allagash National Recreation Area. The proposed area comprised 246,000 acres of forest land, 63 lakes and 360 miles of river and tributary streams, a total area of 296,500 acres.

History Of The Public Land Policy Of Maine, 1620-1820, Margaret Fowles Wilde

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There have been many accounts of individual settlements in Maine and a few histories of the State, but no one has ever attempted a history of its land policy or analyzed the effect that such a policy or lack of policy might have had on the development of the State of Maine.

Maine was one of the earliest sections of the Atlantic Coast to be explored but one of the slowest in development. The latter may have been due to a number of factors but undoubtedly the lack of a definite, well developed land policy had much to do with …

Documents Relating To Trespassers On The Public Lands, Maine Office Of The Governor

Maine History Documents

Contents: Message of Gov. Fairfield to the House of Representatives -- Correspondence from Mr. Hamlin to the governor and council -- Resolve of the legislature, January 24 -- Message of Gov. Fairfield to the House of Representatives -- Resolve of the legislature, February 16 -- Instructions to Mr. Rogerst -- Appointment of Mr. Jarvis -- Message of Gov. Fairfield to the Senate and House of Representatives -- Letter from Gov. Harvey -- A proclamation -- Resolves of the legislature, Feb. 20 and 22 -- State of Maine -- Message of Gov. Fairfield to the House of Representatives -- Message of …