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WELD – Area residents were in shock this week after workers for L.L. Bean granddaughter Linda Bean Folkers dismantled a shelter that had been used by campers for 60 years.
Foresters for Lake Webb Woods Maine LLC removed the three-walled lean-to near Little Jackson Mountain. That action came a week after residents voted 102-0 at a special town meeting to deny Folkers’ request to gate a town-owned road that leads to trails up Little Jackson and Tumbledown mountains and a popular camping area.
Workers also blocked the road with several mounds of dirt in front of 6-foot-deep ditches. Several signs prohibiting camping, fires and motorized vehicles were posted along the road that bisects Folkers’ 2,200 acres.
“I can’t believe they did that,” Alan Beisaw of Wilton said at Weld’s General Store. Beisaw has been camping in the area for 36 years. “It’s the beginning of the end. The flatlanders are taking over.”
Folkers said she is not banning hikers from her land.
“I’d like to resolve the situation with the town of Weld,” not through the newspapers, she told the Sun Journal of Lewiston.
Steve Gettle, forester for Folkers, said at the town meeting May 17 that the property was being abused.
He showed slides of trash and fire rings left behind by campers and said Folkers wants to restrict all-terrain vehicles, camping and fires on her land.
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