BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 30, 2024
Money, especially large amounts of it, has a way of imposing change. The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, which has a bundle of “free” money from the Feds, is planning to construct some new storage buildings in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway and purchase a large boat with muscle outboards and some new American with Disabilities Act-compliant stations. An opposition group, Citizens for Keeping the Wild in Allagash, argue that all of this planned construction does not comply with the spirit of the mandate to keep the Waterway wild. This is a difficult issue, one rooted in the age-old conflict between progress and the natural environment. And the most difficult and delicate of all, accessibility for the disabled. ~ V. Paul Reynolds