PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 25, 2023
The Katahdin region – packed with rugged mountains, serene woods and wild waterways – is one of our crown jewels. Yet we may be about to risk the health of this ecosystem forever to let a Canadian company try to earn a few dollars in the short term. In Bangor on Oct. 23 and in Millinocket on Oct. 16, 17 and 18, the state’s Land Use Planning Commission is set to hold public hearings about this company’s application to rezone Pickett Mountain (about nine miles from Patten, on land that, at present, is sensibly zoned for small cabins) for an industrial mining operation. There are more riches, metaphorical and literal, to be had in preserving this land than there is in letting some corporation tear it apart. ~ Joshua Jackson, Brunswick
