Environmentalists think it s too lenient.
And timber companies think it s just right. It is a new policy for managing the nearly 600,000 acres of public land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Parks and Lands, which was the subject of a public hearing attended by 100 people in Bangor on Tuesday. Basically, the new Integrated Resource Policy is little changed from a 1985 version of the document. Environmental groups tried to get a wilderness category added to the eight types of land-management categories in the old plan. Their efforts were derailed by sportsmen s groups and advocates for snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.