GREENVILLE — Wardens may conduct a search of a remote area off the Appalachian Trail in an effort to find clues into the 1991 disappearance of a Pennsylvania man.

Major Dan Tourtelotte of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said the case involving Thomas Grant Jacoby will be reviewed for the department’s own analysis of where he might be and if a particular area might warrant a search. “It’s not a go particularly at this time because we’re still reviewing it,” he said.

Wardens and deputies from the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department searched for Jacoby in the Millinocket Lake region four years ago, after his abandoned vehicle was discovered in a parking lot and later when his discarded bicycle was found.

Tourtelotte said a Bangor Daily News account of his disappearance published earlier this month prompted the review. That article contained some information provided from a Maine guide who described finding pages of a personal journal near Cooper Brook in T-A R11 WELS, and the fact that a hiker had taken a picture of Jacoby in a picturesque setting at Cooper Brook. That picture obtained by Jacoby’s parents was computer enhanced and the subject was identified as their son.

“I think it would be reasonable to believe that we should put some effort into Cooper Brook (area) at this point,” Tourtellotte said. He said it would not be a big effort, but would be area specific.

Tourtellotte said Sgt. Pat Dorian will organize a plan for the search. “We’ll obviously be looking for a deceased person based upon what we feel,” he said. That doesn’t mean that he couldn’t be out there OK somewhere, he said.

The fact that Jacoby’s personal effects were found at different locations months apart made any search difficult. His vehicle was found six months after his disappearance, abandoned in Spencer Cove parking lot near Millinocket Lake. The keys to the vehicle, Jacoby’s wallet and some loose change were left inside the vehicle. Jacoby’s sleeping bag, tent and flashlight were found in July 1991 by a visitor to the Twin Hills picnic area on Milo Road, but the find was not reported to police until November, the day after Jacoby’s bicycle was found about five miles north of Millinocket.

A handgun that Jacoby carried with him has never been recovered.