Maine Audubon is deeply disappointed by the Land Use Planning Commission's (LUPC) vote on April 2 to adopt rules to open tens of thousands of acres of Maine's North Woods to subdivisons and commercial development. There was very little discussion by the Commissioners before the vote, which is the …
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We Spoke Up Today to Protect the Maine Woods
Today, Maine Audubon stood with over 25 individuals and organizations before the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC, Commission) in Brewer to express our deep concern about their proposed rules that would dramatically change how new development is located in Maine's unorganized territories -- better …
Diverse, Resilient, Intact: The Unique Nature of Maine’s North Woods
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Habitat magazine. Look up at night and you see a sky filled with stars and planets, many melting into the expansive Milky Way above. Look down at Maine from the sky, and you see a massive dark spot, one of very few remaining on the …
The State Is Proposing Major Changes to Management of the North Woods
Maine's Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) is moving forward a proposal to rewrite the rules for where and how new development can occur in Maine's unorganized territories. The LUPC makes planning and zoning decisions for those areas of the state without their own local government -- some 10.4 …