Baxter State Park

A moose feeding on pond vegetation in Baxter State Park, Maine. Photograph by Robert Essel. Stock Market. Reproduced by permission. 

She next bought a 24,000-acre township on the northeast border of Baxter State Park—an area prized by hunters, snowmobilers, and loggers. Opponents of the park pounced, complaining about anticipated new restrictions on the land by the conservation-minded Quimby— even before she had closed the deal. They called and wrote to other landholders in the forest who were considering selling, warning them not to do business with Quimby and her cosmetics empire if they cared at all about the Maine way of life. 

As it happened, another 47,000 acres next to Baxter State Park were auctioned by the same seller at the same time, and were bought by two logger-developers, one of them a voracious forest liquidator — a company that clear-cuts a forest and then sells it for housing development. This land had been sought by the Maine Department of Conservation Percival Baxter had tried in vain to buy it many years before for his state park. It is spectacular terrain that includes a... 

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