The North Woods of Maine is the largest unspoilt area in the US ,east of the Rockies. Recently threatened with development we ask the US government to give it National Park status.Although the primeval forest has diminished by a century of logging the 10 million acre site at the heart of the woods is a huge preserve of flora and fauna
The new National Park would encompass 3.2 million acres, an area larger thanYellowstone and Yosemite combined. The Park would restore native wildlife and ecosystems, protect the headwaters of Maine’s major rivers, provide wilderness recreation on an Alaskan scale, diversify the boom-and-bust local economy, shift control from corporations back to the public, and inspire people across the nation to help save the Maine Woods. The Maine Woods National Park would truly be the “Yellowstone of the East.” As a vast core wilderness, the Park would anchor a system of ecological reserves stretching to the Adirondacks on the west, the Central Appalachians on the south, and Canada on the north.
RESTORE: The North Woods
Maine Office
9 Union Street
Hallowell, ME 04347
Phone: 207-626-5635
Fax:207-626-7944
restore@restore.org