OLD TOWN — Roxanne Quimby has purchased 11,291 acres of forestland east of Maine’s Baxter State Park near the land she wants to transform into a national park.
Located east of the Penobscot River’s East Branch, the land includes forestland, a flood plain with significant wetlands, the Seboeis River, and Peaked Mountain.
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Traditional uses such as snowmobiling and hunting will continue for one year.
Elliotsville Plantation Inc., Quimby’s foundation, says the long-term plan is to allow motorized recreation, hunting and logging on the land to offset her proposal to donate more than 70,000 acres for a national park, where hunting and snowmobiling would be off limits.
Quimby also envisions setting aside another 30,000 acres of woodlands north of Dover-Foxcroft to be managed like a state park, with hunting and snowmobiling allowed.
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