President designates National Monument in northern Maine woods

WMTW ^ | August 24, 2016 | Staff

[Enchante]

The national monument designation has faced opposition in the region.

Gov. Paul LePage released a statement Tuesday afternoon condemning the land donation.

"That's one way to get out of paying taxes to the state of Maine," he said. "It's sad that rich, out-of-state liberals can team up with Obama to force a national monument on rural Mainers who do not want it."

The governor did not stop to talk to reporters Wednesday afternoon after an event in Portland, but his office released a statement.

“President Obama is once again taking unilateral action against the will of the people, this time the citizens of rural Maine,” LePage said in a statement. “The Legislature passed a resolution opposing a National Monument in the North Woods, members of Maine’s congressional delegation opposed it and local citizens voted against it repeatedly.

“Despite this lack of support, the Quimby Family used high-paid lobbyists in Washington, D.C., to go around the people of Maine and have President Obama use his authority to designate this area a National Monument. This once again demonstrates that rich, out-of-state liberals can force their unpopular agenda on the Maine people against their will. Quimby is already well known for preventing hunting, snowmobiling, ATVs, forestry and other traditional activities on her land, and a National Monument will most likely restrict these uses even more. It is my understanding that for those few acres where hunting would be allowed, Quimby has attempted to recreate the restrictions found in the bear baiting referendum that the Maine people roundly rejected as recently as 2014. If average Mainers don’t realize by now that the political system is rigged against them by wealthy, self-serving liberals from away, this is a serious wake-up call. The fix has been in all along.”

[fruser1]

You can google case history if you like. If the deed is written correctly it can be enforced. Has to have precise wording, and in the case of heirs, it has to be a “closed set” of people, as opposed to open. E.g., you can’t say “all future decendants” but you can say “grandchildren alive at the time of my death”, or what not.

Also can vary by state. Perpetuities have always been unenforceable, however, if I recollect correctly, Florida has a 360 year limit.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Roxanne Quimby’s son, Lucas Sinclair, has repeatedly said that hunting and fishing will be allowed on the 87,563 acres of land his mother donated. I personally doubt it very much.

Roxanne Quimby moved her business, Burt’s Bees, to Durham, North Carolina and then sold it for $200 million to, I think, Colgate-Palmolive.

I live in Maine, and 87,563 acres is NOT 30% of the state; not by a long shot. The people who live near the land did NOT want the National Monument, nor do they want a National Park.