BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 6, 2023
The site of a failed 5,400-acre wind farm in northern Penobscot County that sold for $3.25 million recently is the largest and most expensive piece of land in Maine sold so far this year, according to real estate records. The Carroll Plantation plot includes both peaks and the ridgeline of Bowers Mountain and the northern slopes and most of the western and eastern terrain of Getchell Mountain. The location made news 10 years ago when the former owner and a subsidiary of First Wind wanted to build a 27-turbine wind farm called Bowers Mountain Wind that regulators rejected and then a pared down 16-turbine wind farm that also was rejected. The new owner is a Maine logger.