BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 19, 2020
Pickett Mountain, a small peak near Baxter State Park, is surrounded by several lakes and ponds populated with brook trout that make the area ideal for some quiet fishing. But this remote, serene area near the Penobscot-Aroostook county line is likely to be the center of an environmental battle as Maine’s recently enacted mining law — considered to be among the toughest in the nation — is tested for the first time. Wolfden Resources, a Canadian venture based in Ontario, has done test borings in the Pickett Mountain area and speculates there are deposits of valuable metals such as copper and zinc worth extracting, but the land has to be rezoned by the Maine Land Use Planning Commission from general management to a planned development area in order for the company to mine it.