Conservation+vs.+Development

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=What is Plum Creek? **//By Amanda Merritt//**  Plum Creek is former timber company turned to a large Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), based in Seattle Washington, that has accumulated approximately 7 million acres of land in 19 states across the country. They have 1,700 employees working in the different areas and have developed, grown and harvested timber and extracted natural resources in all of the 19 states they work in. In 1998 Plum Creek bought about 900,000 acres of Northern Maine land from an international company called SAPPI **(About Plum Creek)**. Just a year after the purchase Plum Creek converted to the REIT that they currently are. = = =

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Five years ago Plum Creek proposed a plan to develop the Moosehead Lake region with 2,000 house lots, two resorts among other development. Up until recently, September 2009, the Land Use Regulatory Commission of Maine (LURC) has denied their proposal because they say it was too invasive. LURC is a board of volunteers from Maine that is in charge of the unorganized territories of Maine, areas that have no town government. Along with this development deal comes 400,000 acres of conservation land that Plum Creek will be selling in form of an easement to the Nature Conservancy of Maine **(Turkel)**, although this easement allows Plum Creek to continue to use the land for nature resource extraction and sustainable forestry it will allow public access to the areas forever **(ProQuest)**. When the development plan is finished it will be the second biggest conservation deal in the United States history and the biggest development all at one time in Maine. ======

= Current Debates: //By Craig Waterman// =

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The Seattle-based lumber company Plum Creek is proposing to build 2 resorts (a 4200 acre one on Big Moose Mountain and an 1800 acre one at Lily Bay) and over 2000 housing units in the surrounding Moosehead Lake region. Along with this, they have also pledged to conserve 380,074 acres (www.maine.gov) of land in this proposal. Even with that amount of conserved land, groups such as Earth First! (labeled eco-terrorists by the FBI) have been disrupting the process throughout nearly 5 years of L.U.R.C (Land Use Regulatory Commission) trying to decide about passing this proposal. Eventually, Plum Creek's plan was approved on September 23rd, 2009. ======  Earthfirst is a group of nature activists that has been labeled "eco-terrorists" by the FBI due to their rash acts when it comes to preserving the environment. In order to stop the clear cutting of forests, this organization has been known to "spike" trees ( placing a large metal spike or nail in the tree so that when a logger comes to cut the tree, the blade of his saw shatters or breaks). This is one act that has caused them to be labeled as eco-terrorists because the shattering of the blade could injure one of the workers. They have also been known to host "tree sits." A platform is built in a tree, and the person sits on the platform for weeks or months at a time. They are brought food by supporters of their cause (Earth First! Wikipedia). One "tree sit" that is worth mentioning is the tree sit of Julia Butterfly Hill. She sat in a California Redwood tree which was estimated to be around 1500 years old, due to the number of rings on a neighboring tree that was cut down, for 783 days (just over two years). She named the tree Luna, and lived in the tree through freezing temperatures and through the 40 Mph winds of El Niño. She was originally acting on her own, but later on in the protest, she was being supported by Earth First! and a few other groups (Julia Butterfly Hill Wikipedia). 

 Involved Organizations: The organizations involved in this project are L.U.R.C., Plum Creek, The Forest Society of Maine, The Nature Conservancy, The Appalachian Mountain Club, as well as sporting groups such as The Sportsman's Alliance of Maine ("Bangordailynews.com"). Plum Creek proposed this project to the L.U.R.C. board in April of '05. L.U.R.C. had to take into consideration, while going over this proposal, the fact that there were going to be people who would still want public access to the area for activities like hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, etc. This, along with other factors, is what helped L.U.R.C. to revise the plan to allow for these activities and to make the plan better in general.

Public Opinion: Maine's public has had mixed feelings on this proposal. Some people (Earth First!) are completely against it because they will be cutting down trees and digging up the area for the development. Others, like Luke Muzzy, a member of the Plum Creek board, are for the plan because he is on the board, but because they hope it will bring people and money back to the town of Greenville. 

= Pros of Development: //By Dillon Ames// =

**Main Overview:** The maine idea of development is to create jobs and bring more people to Greenville. Greenville is a smaller town in the northern part of Maine. It had a population of 1,623 as of 2000. What Plum Creek's main goal is, or what they say it is, is to bring jobs and people back to Greenville. Jobs will become available from the mass construction that will be needed in the 30 year building time period. There is a planned “2,315 house lots and other accommodations” (Natural Resources Council of Maine). As of right now “the company directly employs 45 people, partners with more than 70 contractors, and works with more than 50 customers throughout the state.” (PlumCreek.com) Already Plum Creek is working with about 165 Maine residents. LURC has and Plum Creek have been working on proposal that, make the majority of the People of Maine satisfied.

Conservation:
**<span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">On September 23, 2009, LURC approved Plum Creek's concept plan. Part of the plan is that Plum Creek will put 400,000 acres to conservation, the second largest conservation land in U.S. history <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; font-weight: normal;">(Plum Creek Website). It also a conservation sale of approximately 29,000 acres to the Appalachian Mountain Club. Ninety six percent of the Plan will be permanently conserved, solidifying a nearly two million acre network of land stretching from the Quebec border to Baxter State Park. ** **<span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica;">Development: ** <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Less than 4 percent of the plan area will be rezoned for development which will occur over the next 30 years. This includes up to 821 residential units and two resorts. An 1,852-acre resort at Lily Bay will include up to 404 residential units and a 4,200-acre resort at Big Moose Mountain will include up to 800 units. All development zones are also located close to existing towns and developed areas. In the first proposals, then development zones were spread out and were located on the banks of other lakes and ponds. The newer versions that Plum Creek has revised have taken those zones out so more ponds and lakes are conserved, also they have made their development zones located near existing developed zones. <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Futura,helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">In the plan it includes 400,000 acres and more than 170 miles of road and trail for local residents and visitors to enjoy. “The company understands the value that forestland provides for recreational opportunities, so we provide access to the vast majority of our approximately 929,000 acres of land in Maine for recreation, including camping, water sports,snowboarding and more.”(PlumCreek.com) For years people have been going up to northern Maine to do all sorts of things like camping, hunting and fishing and. Plum Creek realizes that and also realizes how much of the woods they own and went to allow the people of Maine to do what they have been doing for years. <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica;">

= = = Cons of Development: //By Leta Hallowell// = <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica;">Plum Creek is a national company based out of Seattle that bought approximately 900,000 acres of unorganized territory in northern Maine in 1998. Plum Creek plans to build about 2,000 housing units, one 4,200 acre resort, and one 1,800 acre resort in the Moosehead Lake Region. Plum Creek originally proposed a development plan in 2005 which has been reviewed and revised by the Land Use Regulatory Commission (LURC) over the past four years. The Moosehead Futures Committee, a group of Moosehead region residents, describes the current plan as “merely a somewhat better version of a bad plan” (Miller). Nevertheless, Plum Creek has many arguments as to why this plan is going to be beneficial to Maine, especially regarding the surrounding towns. For instance, like other towns in the Moosehead Lake Region, Greenville is dwindling in both its population and economy. One of Plum Creek’s major arguments for the development plan is that new business establishments will attract more people to the area, increasing the population, producing more jobs and creating a better economy; as a result, the plan could create a more vibrant, prosperous area. However, not everyone feels this way. An article by Kevin Miller of the Bangor Daily News states that, “critics predict the resort could spoil the very beauty and sense of ‘remoteness’ that draws tourists to the area” (Miller). <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Although one of Plum Creek’s defenses is that they will bring jobs to the area, Plum Creek doesn’t necessarily have to hire inside of Maine. They are more than able to bring in their own workers, or hire another company that specializes in that field. Cathy Johnson commented on this issue saying, “Plum Creek was very clear at the hearing that they expected to hire many workers not from the Greenville area and that is why they needed employee housing. There was testimony of hiring workers from eastern Europe or other foreign countries. I am not aware of their reputation in that regard, but they were very forthright that they would be hiring out of state and likely out of country employees” (Johnson). In fact, in Flathead, Montana during April 2006, Plum Creek was finding difficulty in the search for classified workers, both in and out of state. There was even a job that wasn’t filled for almost a year. Plum Creek’s strategy for bringing in more equipped employees was by working with both colleges and public schools. Henry Brown, a high-ranking employee of Plum Creek, claims that “most of Flathead’s kids won’t go onto college so they’d better have the skills to go to work- and if they choose to work for Plum Creek, well that’s fine” (Jamison). Brown also claimed that by working with the kids in school, they were receiving “key skills needed to succeed with any firm- Plum Creek included” (Jamison). However “for some of the more technical positions, no amount of local training seems enough to fill the gaps” (Jamison). In the current plan, there is an unlimited amount of on-site caretaker or manger housing and 190 projected employee housing units which means that there is a possibility of out of state workers. However, even then, Plum Creek could struggle to supply all the jobs required in the development. Another argument against Plum Creek is they could take away from local jobs by creating smaller businesses within their larger company. For instance, if they created a canoeing company called Plum Creek Canoes, then everyone who was staying in the resorts or living in the development would most likely rent canoes from Plum Creek Canoes rather than a local canoeing company such as Northwoods Outfitters, simply out of convenience. <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Another component of the current plan is that after 30 years, Plum Creek is able to request expansion of development at Brassua, Rockwood, Route 6/15, Moose Bay, and Beaver Cove (NRCM). Therefore, after this development begins, most likely there are going to be even more proposals for further development in the area. This raises my concern about conserving the other surrounding woodlands, because 30 years isn’t a long span of time in the natural world. <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> <span style="font-family: baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Although this plan has been revised back and forth between the LURC board and Plum Creek, improvements in Greenville and surrounding towns aren’t guaranteed. However, if the development begins successfully, it could encourage further development by Plum Creek or other real estate companies, thus jeopardizing more wilderness land. As Brownie Carson, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, said, “It is unsettling because it may result in a level of future development, traffic, and increased congestion in the Moosehead Lake region that will forever damage one of Maine’s most remarkable areas” (Carson). After traveling on this land, I have found that this area is such a rarity that would be a mistake to waste it. In my opinion, the question that we have to ask ourselves is this: is attempting to bring surrounding towns back to previous economic standings worth risking the Maine Woods which are impossible to replace? <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;"> =<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Pros of Conservation: //By Abi Campbell// = <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Maine has prevailed through a rising amount of development all over the country to be home to some of the most unique, beautiful and plentiful preserved wilderness in the United States. In 1998, when Plum Creek bought approximately 900,000 acres of land in the northern Maine woods, the timber company, one of the largest land owners in the United States (owning well over 7 million acres of land in 19 states) **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">(Plum Creek) ** <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">, made promises to the citizens of Maine to use the land primarily for sustainable forestry. Just four years later, the Seattle-based company built and sold 89 house lots around the Moosehead Lake region, but assured conservationists and concerned citizens that there would be little to no development on the massive remaining amount of the undeveloped land they were in possession of **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">(Turkel) ** <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">. Rick Holley, Plum Creek’s President, expected only an extremely small percentage of the land they owned in Maine to be sold for development. “There may be land that we sell because it makes sense for the company. . . That’s an option,” he explained during a 1998 interview when the company first purchased the land. <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Today Maine is witness to the biggest development plan in its history. Plum Creek has proposed and L.U.R.C. has recently approved a plan to build two resorts and subdivide land enough for approximately 2,000 residential accommodations. The entire proposal is planned in the Moosehead Lake region at the center of one of the largest areas of undeveloped land east of the Mississippi. However, out of the 400,000 acres of land that were just approved on September 23, 2009, for rezoning, 93% has been dedicated to be conservation land. Easements on this are being bought from Plum Creek by The Nature Conservancy of Maine for $10 million **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">(Johnson) ** <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">. These easements allow Plum Creek to reserve the right to use the conservation land for “road building, cell phone tower construction, construction of high voltage power lines, aggregate quarrying, herbicide spraying and heavy logging,” said local environmental activist Liam Burnell during an interview in 2005. The easements only deny Plum Creek the ability to build residential structures on the conservation land. Due to a requirement initiated by L.U.R.C., Plum Creek is selling all of their rights to only two small pieces of land: one to the Appalachian Mountain Club and the other to the state (a piece of land called the Number 5 Bog). Plum Creek’s proposal has been a controversial topic since the day that they submitted their original plan to L.U.R.C. in 2005. The public has been active in making their thoughts known whether they were for or against this major piece of development.

<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;"> One of the public’s biggest concerns regarding this recently approved proposal was that it would change the reason why Maine citizens have chosen to make this state their home and the reason tourists return to Maine year after year: its plentiful raw and natural beauty. Maine’s summer population spikes by thousands during the tourist season, “I look forward to coming to Maine as a chance to get away from the city, it is something different. A really good different,” says summer resident Lucy Islelin a native of Brooklyn, New York. The proposed resort and house lots in the Moosehead Lake region have the potential to damage the remoteness and beauty that draws people to the area. All over the world wilderness area is dwindling, and for many years this prime area in Maine has avoided development. Plum Creek’s plan has the ability to change the unique culture of Maine’s people. Natural land is extremely important not only to the health of Maine’s citizens (forest land lessens human impact by bringing down C02 <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">emissions), but also to the protection of the small businesses that thrive off the tourist economy, such as small commercial outfitters, markets, gift shops, local restaurants, Maine’s fisheries, etc. A long history of farming, fishing and logging could be drastically changed, and the unique lifestyle that many Maine citizens are accustomed to could slowly become nonexistent **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">(Big Picture) ** <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">. <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">

<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">Although the land that has been put under conservation easement will by open to the public, approximately 30,000 acres of land to be developed will be private property to which the pubic will be denied access. This land includes areas around Moosehead Lake, Indian Pond, Big Moose Mountain, Brassua Lake, Long Pond, Little Moose Mountain, etc. **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">(Johnson ** <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">). All of which are and have been popular areas for low impact outdoor activities such as hiking, canoeing, rafting, rock-climbing, kayaking, bird watching and camping. “Plum Creek still misses the true natural and cultural character of our region ....It fails to honor the values and needs of our struggling communities. It offers inadequate protection to the wildlife and water resources that belong to all Maine people,” says the Moosehead Lake Future Committee, a group of Maine residents made up of citizens of the towns surrounding the Moosehead lake area. Conserving Maine’s forest land is the primary goal of many individuals and groups all across the state and it is important to protect and preserve these unique areas.

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<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">The negative effects of conservation are pretty simple. Plum Creek has proposed to give the State of Maine 407,000 acres in conservation easements, but there's a catch. Plum Creek is not just giving the land directly to the state. They are making Maine tax payers pay around thirty two million dollars for the conservation land. In theory, this will most likely raise Mainer’s taxes. Plum Creek will still be able to make money off of the same land that Maine will have to buy. They can perform tasks such as logging, oil and water extraction, mining for granite and gravel, and generating wind power for money. It is also known as "double dipping" says Cathy Johnson of NRCM. ====== <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">

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<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">We can not consider this conservation since Plum Creek’s view of conservation is different than the Maine peoples. Conservation in my opinion is land that you can not do anything but activities such as snowmobiling and sporting activities such as football, baseball, jogging etc. One major con would be the act of clear cutting. Clear cutting is bad for the environment because it effects the tree lines and results in big open fields with stumps. If Plum Creek had not gotten approval for rezoning the area around Moosehead Lake they could have, hypothetically, taken two different routes. Plum Creek could have decided to take away all of the conservation lands and all of the laws and regulations that were put in place to regulate Plum Creek. Which would mean that everything that was put into place would have been done for nothing. Also, Plum Creek could have turned around and decided to sell off all their land to a Logging or Paper Milling company. ====== <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">

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<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">When promoting conservation easements, there are a lot of issues that come up. For instance, jobs will be gained because land in conservation directly enhances opportunities for future developments near those lands. For landowners, it will be hard to make money off of the land because it would now be conserved. On conserved land, you can not build or develop because it has been put into permeant conservation. This means that future landowners will be loosing money because they cannot develop on the conserved land. When land is put into conservation the value of that land decreases dramatically because of taxes. Property taxes play a significant role in why people turndown conservation land easements. ======

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<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">People resent conservation land because it raises taxes. Putting land into conservation will save money for towns or states because when land is put into conservation the tax base of the town and surrounding areas will decrease. Setting the land aside for development will raise the tax base. If you have a house or any type of property near conservation lands your property value may increase. People who are looking into selling their house or property agree with this but the potential buyers do not. Conservation is a key component of tourism and outdoor recreational activities in Maine. A majority of the vacationers that come to Maine participate in and get a chance to experience the beauty of this great state by involving themselves in some sort of nature based activity such as hunting, fishing, hiking, wildlife watching etc. In reality, having a vast amount of conservation land in one state will bring vacationers and visitors to experience those great activities. ======

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=<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Discussion: =

I am not all that sure on how I feel about this whole Plum creek idea. There are so many different opinions to the Plum Creek Plan.
 * <span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Amanda Merritt: **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">

**<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Craig Waterman: **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;"> I am undecided in this ongoing Plum Creek debate. I do think that it will be beneficial to the town of Greenville because of the jobs and income it will generate for the surrounding area. It will also bring people back to Greenville, meaning that the school will have more kids, instead of loosing kids each year. On the other hand, I also agree with groups like Earth First! This development will also be destroying tons of animal’s homes and habitats. Plus, it won't be long before people are littering in the lake, and if something like sewage spills into the lake, well, it is bad news for fish and fishermen alike. Another problem, is that though the jobs will be good for the area for a while, once the construction is complete, the jobs that were being created by the construction will be gone. Some people might get jobs working in the small convenience stores, or as Resort staff, but not everyone will get a job from this development. Also, the region will be covered in new, bright lights, obstructing the beautiful view of the stars and of the surrounding area.

There are a lot of pros to the development that Plum Creek is and has proposed. The mane idea is to create jobs bring more people to Greenville. Greenville is a smaller town in the northern part of maine. It has a smaller community of 1,623 as of 2000. What Plum Creeks mane goal is or what they say it it wis to bring jobs and people back to Greenville. First jobs will come from the mass construction that will be needed in the 30 year building time period. There is a plained “2,315 house lots and other accommodations” (Natural Resources Council of Maine).
 * Dillon Ames:**

**<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Leta Hallowell: In my opinion, the Plum Creek plan has no guarantees and what they are promising isn’t necessarily what is going to happen in the future. I definitely don’t think that attempting to bring jobs to Greenville is worth the risk of Maine’s woodlands.

Abi Campbell: The uniqueness of Maine wilderness is something special to the region and undeveloped land has become sparse. It is important to preserve these areas. Plum Creek's plan may bring jobs to Greenville and surrounding towns, but is the economical incline of a town more important than forest lands, that will never be the same after even a small amount of development? I think that is the question that you must ask yourself when you are contemplating your opinion. **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">

**<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;">Rico Rattina: **<span style="font-family: Baskerville,Helvetica;"> In my opinion, I think there are both good things and bad things that are happening with Plum Creek's development plan. Some of the good things are that Plum Creek is selling the state 400 thousand acres in conservation lands. Now there is a plus side and a minus side to this. The plus is that Maine will get that land and it will become permeant conservation lands. The minus's are that the Appalachian Mountian Club will pay Plum Creek 11.2 Million dollars and Maine's Nature Conservancy will pay 10 Million dollars to be able to purchase the land for conservation. Also, Plum Creek will be able to still make money off the land by logging, drilling for water, mining for gravel, and generating wind power. That would not be a good investment for Maine. I hope that bringing these resorts to the Greenville area will help prosper the area to where the economic level used to be. While it is promising that building the resorts will bring work, but if they want, couldn't Plum Creek just bring their own employees to work on the project thus denying jobs for the people of Greenville? Remember that Plum Creek is an International company that has around 1900 employees in the US. (I cant be talking that this is not a good decision for the area because I do not reside near Greenville and if I did I would know what the area is going through). I just hope that Plum Creek will keep their promises.

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