BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 2, 2021
Keeping a more than 80-year tradition alive, former Fort Kent police chief Tom Pelletier is the latest of his lineage to play a role in overseeing the forests of northern Maine. Pelletier, 58, has been named executive director of North Maine Woods Inc. where he will oversee nearly 4 million acres of commercial and private forestland that surrounds the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. North Maine Woods is a nonprofit organization based in Ashland. Pelletier will officially take over as executive director of North Maine Woods Aug. 30. He replaces Albro Cowperthwaite, who is retiring after nearly 40 years in the position.