Phyllis Austin Reports

Phyllis Austin Reports for Maine Environmental News

Roxanne Quimby intends to manage her newly acquired parcel bordering Baxter State Park as a "nature sanctuary", just like her other Maine lands. That means no harvesting, no hunting and trapping and no motorized access. "My first priority is to protect wildlife and plants," the entrepreneur/philanthropist said Thursday. Read story.
Newly Acquired Parcel Bordering Baxter State Park Will Be a Nature Sanctuary   (Maine Environmental News, 9/15/06)

Deal Would Realize Percival Baxter's Dream of Adding Katahdin Lake to Park (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 1/24/06)

Seboomook Management Plan Criticized for Favoring Motorized Recreation (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 12/15/05)

Quimby/Gardner Land Swap Will Protect Wassataquoik Stream and Land East of Baxter Park (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 10/26/05)

Timber Companies Seek to Bridge Remote Wassataquoik Stream at Orin Falls (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 7/29/05)

Rising Lynx Take Worries Advocates (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/12/05)

Controversy Over Baxter Park Logging Plan (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 3/11/05)

High Stakes Negotiations Over Fate of Katahdin Lake Tract (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 3/1/05)

Plum Creek's Big Plan (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 2/10/05)

Unprepared Katahdin Hikers Burden Baxter Park Staff (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 10/25/04)

Controversy Over Permit to Rebuild Taylor Camps on Allagash Wilderness Waterway (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 7/1/04)

Continuing Land Sales in Maine's North Woods Lead to Conservation, Fragmentation (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/9/04)

LURC Agrees to Public Meeting on Proposed Poland Spring Project in North New Portland (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/14/04)

Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission: Past, Present, and Future (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 4/23/04)

LURC Approves New Development of Saddleback Mountain Ski Resort (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 4/02/04

Legislative Approval Expected for Four New Nominees to the Land Use Regulation Commission (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 3/09/04

LURC Permits Alteration of Plum Creek First Roach Pond Conservation Covenant (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 2/17/04)

Appalachian Mountain Club Purchases 36,691 acres in Hundred Mile Wilderness (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 12/9/03)

Roxanne Quimby Purchases High Priority 24,000 Acre Township East of Baxter Park (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 11/24/03)

Cautious Optimism About Fate of Mead/Wastvaco's 659,000 Acres in Maine and New Hampshire (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 11/17/03)

Committee Working on New Regulations to Eliminate Liquidation Harvesting (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 10/30/03)

New Baxter Park Trustees Face Challenges and Opportunities (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 9/18/03)

Irving to Sell 71,000 Acres East of Baxter Park for Record Prices (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 8/27/03)

Herb Haynes Buys 12,500 acres of Key East Branch Lands (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/20/03)

Wilderness Advocate Charles FitzGerald Purchases Katahdin Lake Wilderness Camps (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/30/03)

IF&W Biologist Critical of Coyote Snaring Slated for Demotion (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 3/11/03)

Under Fire: Maine's Coyote Snaring Program Feels the Heat from Feds, Activists, Budget Cuts (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 2/21/03)

Cutting and Selling the Gems of Maine's North Woods (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 1/29/02)

Calculating the Costs of Maine's Coyote Snaring Program (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 1/17/03)

Vehicular Access Restricted in Baxter Park Scientific Forest Management Area (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 1/16/03)

No Ban on Coyote Snaring In Lynx Areas (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 12/16/02)

Irving Land For Sale On Baxter Park’s Border (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 11/22/02)

The Bigelow Hut-And-Trail System: Money And Politics (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 11/14/02)

Carving Up Downeast Maine: Forest Liquidators Converge on Washington County (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 11/13/02)

Baxter Park Authority Approves Access Restrictions, Increase in Visitor Fees (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 10/22/02)

The West Branch Project: Are Economic Interests Outweighing Conservation Goals? (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 9/27/02)

College of the Atlantic Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Whales from 'The Rock' (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 8/13/02)

Federal Investigators Weigh in on West Branch Project (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 8/2/02)

IF&W Outlaws Commercial Harvest of Snapping Turtles (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 7/26/02)

Pollution, tourism and the future of Monhegan Island (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 7/12/02)

T. R. Dillon Logging of Anson: Learning the Hard Way (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 7/4/02)

More Questions Raised About West Branch Project (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/26/02)

Record Number of Lynx Kittens Found in Maine (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/24/02)

Plum Creek: Finding Gold in Maine (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/12/02)

John Willard plans 50-lot shorefront subdivision on Brassua Lake (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 6/6/02)

Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife proposes ban on commercial harvesting of snapping turtles (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/31/02)

Allagash Checkpoints Torched (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/24/02)

John Malone purchases 53,524-acre Frontier Forest in the western mountains (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/22/02)

The Future of the White Mountains: Debate over Roadless Areas and Wilderness (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/14/02)

Baxter Park to Raise Fees (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/13/02)

West Branch Project In Trouble (Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News, 5/8/02)

 

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