But Mainers such as Ray Campbell aren't buying. He hates everything about the park concept. A retired engineer with the Merchant Marines, Campbell hunts and fishes whenever he can but realizes he wouldn't be able to in the park. Nobody is being fooled. You can't hunt down in Acadia National Park, and you won't be able to hunt up there.
People here are suspicious even of any public land purchases.
That would put the land into the hands of bureaucrats and bureaucrats are always into control. Campbell thinks most of the park proponents' fears are unfounded. He doesn't see the heavy logging going on in the woods around him as a threat, even noting that some radical types of cutting are actually good for the moose and partridge populations. And neither does he think that vacation homes are going to start springing up beside remote lakes. I don't know anybody in the town of Millinocket in favor of it.