Considering moving to Northern Maine, Aroostook County.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

I recently attended an event where some of those folks had stalls. I even picked up a few of their brochures.

Wow!

They had petitions they were trying to get folks to sign, basically letters to legislators expressing the desire for more of Maine to be 'protected' for 'primitive uses' [non-motorized uses], and / or restricted access [for sight-seeing hikers but no fishing, no hunting, and nothing motorized].

No kidding. They're always whining to add more "wilderness" designations to the national forest here and elsewhere. The real reason is to shut down logging it, even though they were created for the purpose of supplying timber to local businesses.

And the state ANR here in VT recently proposed allowing a short trail to connect two private trails to be made for ATV's on an existing trail, the enviros are out in droves attacking it, claiming it will cause damage. As it is, most of the hiking trails in this state are worn and eroded down to rocks and roots from all the foot traffic, and the snowmobile and ATV trails are in better shape because they volunteer to maintain them. They just want the people off the land is all.

I think the disaster in Maine known as Bar Harbor should be more than enough for the fruitcakes, they hurt enough people there when they (a bunch of millionaires who built vacation homes there) decided they wanted everyone else gone and created that. Up in Alaska the NPS burned people's homes down to drive them away in the 80's.

[medievalbooks]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

In some cases it is the wife insisting that the move is made to Northern Maine.

Ayup and my poor cityboy husband has finally acquiesed to a summer place.

And this "wife" grew up in the midwest in Wisconsin where regular weather was 27 below and winter started in October and ended in April. Granted in the last number of years Wisconsin has gotten warmer but it wasn't then! Plus spend a number of years in Northern NH and Colorado was downright balmy and tropical.