My grandfather taught me an appreciation for the woods, waters, and wildlife here, and we need to make sure that our grandchildren have the opportunity to enjoy these things, too. The rapid change in land ownership and corporate priorities could produce mini-suburbias all over the Northern Forest. Development needs to be planned rather than be allowed to sprawl. By Madeleine Eno Excerpted from AMC Outdoors, September 1999 Drive up the road six miles from Greenville, Maine, past a small marina and purple patches of lupine jutting up around Land for Sale signs, and you ll find Beaver Cove Camps. An antique display case he bought in town holds a stuffed fox in midstep, old faded tobacco tins, and vintage Maine guidebooks.
Waves lap quietly outside the window on a morning warm for early summer.
Glavine stretches out tan legs bare in khaki shorts, and folds his arms across his chest, a silver bracelet glinting on his wrist. He s a young 46, with a warm, rugged face and a polished, rapid-fire way of speaking. A half-dozen years ago, looking for a more connected quality of life than he d had in his successful career as a contract negotiator for Bath Iron Works on the coast, Glavine bought the deterioriated fishing and hunting camp. Glavine repaired the six small log cabins that perch right on Moosehead s shore. From here it s a straight-shot 11 miles across to the opposite shore, and at night Glavine sees only a single light out there.