Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Trust of Seattle, Washington is the nation’s largest landowner in the United States.  Though more commonly known in the US as a forest management and timber company, Plum Creek has ventured significantly into real estate development and proposed the largest development project the state of Maine has ever managed.  Indeed, large-scale development projects in wild areas have already been successfully established by Plum Creek in Oregon and Montana. 

 Known as the Moosehead Lake Region Concept plan, Plum Creek has submitted a proposal to the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) to rezone for development over 400,000 acres to allow for development in the wild, forested Maine Woods.

As a result of tremendous local and regional opposition to the development proposal, Plum Creek has revised their plan 3 times.  The latest concept plans calls for over 20,000 acres rezoned in residential and commercial development (see map) including 2 large resorts, over 2000 residential and resort housing units, and 432 acres of commercial development in the forested Unorganized Territories of Maine’s Forests.  Public opposition stopped their development progress twice!  Let’s continue to protect our forest heritage and prevent sprawled development in the forests of the Moosehead Lake Region!

Lily Bay is one of the areas threatened by development under the current Plum Creek development plan.  Photo courtesy of Dominik Jonak