March 28, 2024
Letter

Plum Creek can proceed

I wanted to take a moment to send my comments after reading the Sept. 17-18 letter titled, “Wilderness not for sale.”

I am a lifelong resident of Maine, former business owner and avid snowmobiler in the Greenville area. I have been listening to the debate on Plum Creek’s development plan and have not been able to understand why they should lose their right to work the land they own in a responsible manner.

I hate it when individuals feel they have the freedom to dictate how a large landowner can use their land. I have watched Roxanne Quimby buy a large piece of land that I have snowmobiled on for years and this year all that comes to an end.

I am not happy about this but if the state or anyone else wants the land to be used for something other than the owner then they should have bought it, then they would have any right to do with the land as they see fit.

When will people learn that businesses and business people work real hard to accomplish things in life that we all most of the time benefit from, just to be called greedy, uncaring, selfish and told that they do not care about the environment or anything else that the lay person seems to think they are the only ones that care.

I am glad letter writer Christine Lashley has been able to enjoy the Maine woods for as long as I have, but I am tired of a state that is in deficit, overtaxed, anti-business, no matter what the press says.

As long as Plum Creek is being responsible, which it seems they are, then they should be allowed to proceed.

Fred Gagne

Bangor


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