$6.5 million in conservation bonds held up by LePage officially expire
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — As Maine hunters headed to the woods on the first regular day of deer season Monday, many found access to traditional hunting grounds blocked by landowners who are posting their property. Ironically, this also was the day that nearly $6.5 million in voter-approved Land for Maine’s Future bonds expired.
Those bonds allow the purchase of land for public use.
State Rep. Martin Grohman is a Democrat representing Biddeford, but his roots are in the western Maine town of Carthage, where his family has hunted for decades. This year, he received his moose permit and headed back to Carthage to try his luck. But things had changed.
“We came into this parcel and had been hunting there for many, many years, and here comes a fellow from Connecticut on his four-wheeler — well within his rights — posted that land, an 80-acre parcel,” Grohman said. “It was a bit of a shock to the system to say the least.”
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LePage has just pissed off the very people that reelected him.
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