At the recent annual meeting of the Penobscot River Advisory Committee, which reports to the Bureau of Parks and Lands, Great Northern Paper announced that is opposing multiple-run rafting trips on the West Bank of the Penobscot and that it will deny acces across its land to outfitters who truck rafts and customers back for second and third trips through Ripogenus Gorge and the Cribworks. Great Northern\u27s resource manager, Dan Corcoran said the trips have been a problem for twenty years; they interfere with logging road traffic and present safety problems. Jim Murton, a whitewater outfitter, disagrees with Great Northern\u27s decision, saying that multiple runs have allowed him to build North Country Rivers into one of the leading raf...
Focus Greater Bangor piece is an edited transcript of an interview with Scott Phillips, owner of No...
A yearlong series of meetings on new licenses for dams on the lower Penobscot River has failed to pr...
Penobscot River dams provide half the power for the Great Northern Paper Company, year-round sewage ...
News & Issues piece on the whitewater rafting industry, which wants to play a role in how recreatio...
News & Issues piece on a new lease negotiated by Great Northern Paper and commercial interests alon...
High water on the West Branch of the Penobscot River resulted in as many rafting accidents by July a...
Maine has 27 licensed whitewater rafting companies operating on the Kennebec, Penobscot and Dead riv...
Thirteen white water rafting outfitters have complained to the Department of Inland Fisheries that N...
The Millinocket Whitewater Association has proposed a two-day whitewater rodeo on the West Branch of...
Focus on Greater Bangor Region piece on how an unlikely consortium of Pennsylvania Power and Light,...
News & Issues piece on the proposed construction of a motorized access to the Allagash Wilderness W...
The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission voted 4-3 against allowing Penobscot Outdoor Center, Inc. t...
LD 1820 would change commercial whitewater rafting laws to allow outfitters to buy another outfitter...
Bowater Inc. and the Maine Professional River Outfitters have come to an agreement on Bowater\u27s d...
News & Issues piece on the new management plan for the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, which opened J...
Focus Greater Bangor piece is an edited transcript of an interview with Scott Phillips, owner of No...
A yearlong series of meetings on new licenses for dams on the lower Penobscot River has failed to pr...
Penobscot River dams provide half the power for the Great Northern Paper Company, year-round sewage ...
News & Issues piece on the whitewater rafting industry, which wants to play a role in how recreatio...
News & Issues piece on a new lease negotiated by Great Northern Paper and commercial interests alon...
High water on the West Branch of the Penobscot River resulted in as many rafting accidents by July a...
Maine has 27 licensed whitewater rafting companies operating on the Kennebec, Penobscot and Dead riv...
Thirteen white water rafting outfitters have complained to the Department of Inland Fisheries that N...
The Millinocket Whitewater Association has proposed a two-day whitewater rodeo on the West Branch of...
Focus on Greater Bangor Region piece on how an unlikely consortium of Pennsylvania Power and Light,...
News & Issues piece on the proposed construction of a motorized access to the Allagash Wilderness W...
The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission voted 4-3 against allowing Penobscot Outdoor Center, Inc. t...
LD 1820 would change commercial whitewater rafting laws to allow outfitters to buy another outfitter...
Bowater Inc. and the Maine Professional River Outfitters have come to an agreement on Bowater\u27s d...
News & Issues piece on the new management plan for the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, which opened J...
Focus Greater Bangor piece is an edited transcript of an interview with Scott Phillips, owner of No...
A yearlong series of meetings on new licenses for dams on the lower Penobscot River has failed to pr...
Penobscot River dams provide half the power for the Great Northern Paper Company, year-round sewage ...