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December 3, 2007

Quimby, state hash out land deal

Roxanne Quimby and the state have worked out a deal that will allow the conservationist to buy more North Woods land while also extending public access to hunting and snowmobiling areas.

Quimby has agreed to pay the Gardner Land Co. $6.1 million for 8,900 acres east of Baxter State Park, a parcel known as the Wassataquoik Valley lands, the Bangor Daily News reported. As part of the deal, Quimby has given the state a two-year option to purchase 5,000 acres north of Millinocket Lake for $3 million. The deal also includes establishing a working forest easement on an additional 6,647 acres nearby owned by Quimby's nonprofit foundation, Elliotsville Plantation Inc.

The deal, if completed, will open the land up for recreation and timber harvesting. The state previously had attempted to negotiate the purchase of the Wassataquoik Valley land, but the Gardner family rejected the state's offer and land went back on the market, the paper reported.

Quimby, who founded Burt's Bees in Maine in 1984, has earned criticism from some in Maine for her practice of buying large tracts of North Woods land and barring it from snowmobiling, hunting and forestry.

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