Republican Governor Paul LePage has decided toban all signsthat direct people toKatahdin Woods and Waters , a tract of country in Maine that ’s designated as a national memorial . With the fate of many interior monuments designated by Obama when in office now up for question afterTrump rank a Union reviewof the parks , it seems that the Governor of Maine has postulate things into his own mitt .
It mean that there will be no signage bespeak people in the right direction to the park from the freeway , in what many conservationist and member of the household who donated the soil for the memorial think is a cynical move by the governor to stifle visitor numbers .
agree to a commonwealth transportation spokesman , Ted Talbot , the decision is designed to save money until after the federal review is gross . “ While it is under review , we really have to wait for that determination , ” said Talbot in theBangor Daily News . “ What we do n’t want to do is pull taxpayer ’ money to signage or any type of projection without knowing that it [ the monument ] is in place and that everyone is on board with it . ”
This arguing is odd for a number of reason , not least that individual organization were uncoerced to foot the eyeshade of the signs . Also , the Union review article order by President Trump is mostly only going to search at national monument that were designated after 1996 by executive order and that are over 40,500 hectare ( 100,000 demesne ) in size of it .
This means that 27 national monument are now up for review , but it also imply that Katahdin Woods and amniotic fluid , which is 35,400 hectares ( 87,500 acres ) in size , should not be include in the reassessment . Governor LePage lobbied the current administration to admit it , despite being smaller than the terminus ad quem , leading many to think this latest move byLePage is simply“spiteful and destructive ” .
But more than that , the review of the national repository is in effect an attempt to remove security from government land that has the potential for industrial activity such as mining and logging . Curiously , the land that was used to make Katahdin Woods and Waters was never the governments in the first spot , but was donated by a private fellowship , imply that the Department of State of Maine never even had the right hand to bore or mine on the res publica in the first position .
The son of the sept who owned the demesne questions LePage ’s motives . He allege that their family line only corrupt the piece of land of land after the timber industriousness adjudicate that it was no longer economical to log , and that the tourism and diversion industry in the neighborhood would be far more profitable .
