November 07, 2024
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Plum Creek plan for Moosehead region

Plum Creek owns 938,000 acres in Maine and employs 45 people in the state. It supplies logs and pulp to more than 70 Maine companies.

Contrasting Plum Creek’s original development plan for Maine’s Moosehead Lake region and the revised plan outlined Tuesday:

OLD: 30 lots on remote ponds, 28 lots on Roach Ponds

NEW: None

OLD: 30 Moose River lots

NEW: None

OLD: 575 Moosehead Lake shorefront lots

NEW: 480 Moosehead shorefront lots

OLD: 400 back lots

NEW: 495 back lots

OLD: 71.3 miles snowmobile trails

NEW: 74 miles snowmobile trails

OLD: 55.5 miles hiking trails

NEW: 70 miles hiking trails

Also, conservation easements are greatly increased under the new plan, and the Lily Bay resort is scaled back by more than 80 percent in the new plan.


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