he did that to a huge chuck of Maine north Woods as well.
The people are LIVID about it.
I believe that’s the 87,000 acres that Roxanne Quimby, former owner of Burt’s Bees, donated to the government.
Quimby sold Burt’s Bees to...I think it was Colgate-Palmolive....some years back for $200 million. Quimby used her money to buy up forest land in northern Maine....she wanted a National Park, but that didn’t happen. The best she could hope for was a designation as a National Monument, and Obama did just that last Fall. It’s called the Katahdin Headwaters National Monument or some such thing.
You’re right....the people who live and work near this National Monument are not happy.