Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1674
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: PINEAU, BRYANT, JOY, DAVIS, RAYE

Legislative Document 
No. 1674 
H.P.1182 
House of Representatives, May 16,2005 
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department 
of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands 
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed. 
/JJ~1??77!~ 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative PINEAU of Jay. (GOVERNOR'S BILL) 
Cosponsored by Senator BRYANT of Oxford and 
Representative: JOY of Crystal, Senators: DAVIS of Piscataquis, RAYE of Washington. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Preamble. 
The Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 23 
requires that real estate held by the State for conservation or 
recreation purposes may not be reduced or its uses substantially 
altered except on the vote of 2/3 of all members elected to each 
House. 
Whereas, certain real estate authorized for conveyance by 
this resolve is under the designations described in the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A; and 
Whereas, the Director of the Bureau of Parks 
and Lands 
within the Department of Conservation may sell or exchange lands 
with the approval of the Legislature in accordance with the Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, 
Title 
12, 
sections 
1837 
and 
1851; 
now, 
therefore, be it 
Sec. 1. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Chesuncook Township, County of 
Piscataquis. Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks 
and Lands within the Department of Conservation may by quitclaim 
deed without covenant convey for appraised fair market value and 
for private uses, and on such other terms and conditions as the 
director may direct, to David and Luisa Surprenant a certain lot 
of 
land 
in 
Chesuncook 
Township 
(T5 
R13 
WELS) 
located 
in 
Chesuncook Village, Maine, being approximately 2.2 acres in size 
and which is described in a lease currently held by said David 
and Luisa Surprenant, as lessees, said lease dated February 9, 
2000, with the department as lessor; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Wyman Township, County of 
Franklin. Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and 
Lands within the Department of Conservation may by quitclaim deed 
without covenant convey for appraised fair market value, and on 
such other terms and conditions as the director may direct, to 
Gareth V. Warren a certain lot of land in Wyman Township, Maine, 
being approximately 0.36 of an acre in size for purposes of a 
septic system, said land being located on Routes 16 and 27 in 
Wyman Township (portion of Book 1153, Page 211, Franklin County 
Registry 
of 
Deeds). 
Such 
lot or 
parcel 
of 
land 
is 
more 
particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at an iron pipe 
found in the southwesterly sideline of Routes 16 and 27 and at 
the northeasterly corner of land now or formerly of Gareth V. 
Warren and at the northwesterly corner of land of the grantor 
herein, said pipe lying approximately two hundred and fifty feet 
(250'+1-) southeasterly of the intersection of said road sideline 
with "Stoney 
minutes west 
six-tenths 
Brook"; 
thence 
a 
distance of 
feet 
(S 
south 
four 
nineteen 
hundred 
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degrees fifty-one 
and fifty-four 
and 
51'W 
454.6') 
along said Warren land to an iron pipe found at the southeasterly 
corner of said Warren land; thence south seventy-nine degrees 
forty-seven minutes east a distance of eight and no tenths feet 
(S 79° 47' 
E 8.0') along land to be retained by the grantor 
herein to an iron pin set; thence north thirty-three degrees 
eleven minutes east a distance of one hundred and thirty-nine and 
three-tenths feet (N 33° II' E 139.3') along said retained land 
to an iron pin set; 
thence north nineteen degrees fifty-one 
minutes 
east 
a 
distance 
of 
three 
hundred 
and 
three 
and 
eight-tenths feet (N19° 51' E 303.8') along said retained land to 
an iron pin set in the aforesaid road sideline; thence north 
fifty-one degrees two minutes west a distance of forty-two and 
three-tenths feet (N 51° 02' W 42.3') along said road sideline to 
the point and place of beginning, 
and containing thirty-six 
hundredths of an acre (0.36 ac). 
The courses recited herein are 
based on a survey performed by York Hill Surveying of Vienna, 
Maine and depicted on a plan entitled "Gareth V. Warren" by said 
York Hi11 dated April 28, 
2004. 
Bearings are oriented to a 
magnetic reference meridian depicted on said plan. 
Iron pins set 
are #5 rebar. 
The 0.36 acre is a portion of those premises 
described in a deed from J. M. Huber Corporation to the State of 
Maine dated October 16, 1989, and recorded April 2, 1990 in the 
Franklin County Registry of Deeds in Book 1153, Page 211; and be 
it further 
Sec. 3. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Town of Rockwood, County of 
Somerset. Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and 
Lands within the Department of Conservation may by quitclaim deed 
without covenant convey for appraised fair market value, and on 
such other terms and conditions as the director may direct, to 
Welden King a certain lot of land in Rockwood Strip (T1 R1 NBKP), 
Maine, 
being 
approximately 
acres, 
in 
exchange 
for 
approximately 225 acres in Sapling Township (T1 R7 BKPWKR); and 
be it further 
Sec. 4. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain land in Sandy Bay Township (TS R3 NBKP), 
County of Somerset. Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of 
Parks and Lands wi thin the Department of Conservation may by 
quitclaim deed without covenant convey, for appraised fair market 
value, and on such other terms and conditions as the director may 
direct, to the United States of America, acting by and through 
its General Services Administration, a certain lot or parcel of 
land, situated on the northerly side of Route 201, in Sandy Bay 
Township (T5 R3 NBKP), Maine, of approximately 0.3 of an acre in 
size, but no more than approximately 1.078 acres as shown on a 
plan entitled "Site Concept Plan B" dated January 20, 2004, by 
Gorri11-Palmer Consulting Engineers, Inc., (a copy of said plan 
is on file with the department) for purposes of national security 
at the Jackman border crossing. 
Said lot or parcel of land is 
situated on the northerly side of Route 201, in the Township of 
Sandy Bay (T5 R3 NBKP), County of Somerset, and State of Maine, 
and is adjacent to and southerly of the Jackman border crossing, 
and is a portion of the parcel conveyed by Louis O. Hilton to the 
the Somerset County Registry of Deeds in Book 1233, Page 53. 
Said parcel subject to the rights of others to use the gravel 
road that runs through the subject parcel, said gravel road to be 
upgraded by the United States of America, acting by and through 
its General Services Administration, 
in cooperation with the 
harvesting, travel by the public and snowmobiling. 
For reference 
see rights reserved in a deed from Louis O. Hilton to the State 
of Maine and recorded in the Somerset County Registry of Deeds in 
Book 1233, Page 53, and rights conveyed in common with Hilton and 
others recorded in said Registry of Deeds in Book 770, page 336; 
and be it further 
Sec. 5. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain land in Town of Jonesboro, County of 
Washington. Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks 
and Lands within the Department of Conservation may by quitclaim 
deed without covenant convey, for $1 and on such other terms and 
conditions as the director may direct, to the University of Maine 
System, 
a certain lot of land and buildings and improvements 
thereon commonly referred to as Blueberry Hill Farm, 
and also 
known as the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, located in 
the Town of Jonesboro, Maine, being approximately 29 acres in 
size and all as described in a deed from Patrick J. Sullivan and 
Harry C. Sullivan to the State of Maine dated January 24, 1946 
and recorded in the Washington County Registry of Deeds in Book 
468, Page 232. 
The purpose of this section is to authorize the 
conveyance of the subject lot, which was inadvertently omitted in 
Resolve 1965, chapter 86. 
That resolve authorized the transfer 
of certain lots of land owned by the State of Maine to the former 
University of Maine. 
The University of Maine and its successors, 
including the University of Maine System, has since operated, 
improved and maintained the parcel as the Maine Agricultural 
Experiment Station and Blueberry Hill Farm; and be it further 
Sec. 6. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Town of Jay, County of Franklin. 
Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
within the Department of Conservation may 
by quitclaim deed 
without covenant convey for fair market value, and on such other 
terms 
and 
conditions 
as 
the director 
may 
direct, 
including 
maintenance and safety obligations and responsibilities, to the 
inhabitants of the Town of Jay, 
a 50-foot wide trail-crossing 
easement 
at 
Station 
2571+00 
in 
the 
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Town of Jay, Maine. 
Said railroad crossing easement is further 
described as: 
A certain parcel of land situated easterly of 
Route 4, in the Town of Jay, County of Franklin, State of Maine, 
bounded and described as follows, to wit: 
Beginning at a set 
rebar on the apparent easterly sideline of land formerly of the 
Maine Central Railroad Company, said rebar being southerly along 
the apparent curved sideline of said former railroad land, 
a 
curved distance of two hundred twenty and eighty-nine hundredths 
(220.89) feet, from another a set rebar being at the southwest 
corner of land now or formerly of Jose Diaz as recorded in Book 
467, Page 102 at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds; thence 
southerly along the apparent curved sideline of said former 
railroad land and along land of the inhabitants of the Town of 
Jay, 
a 
curved distance 
of fifty 
and 
thirty-five hundredths 
(50.35) feet, to a set rebar; thence north 81 degrees 04 minutes 
seconds west through former railroad land, 
a 
distance of 
sixty-six and eight-hundredths 
(66.08) 
feet, 
to a 
set rebar; 
thence northerly along the apparent curved sideline of said 
former railroad land and along land of the inhabitants of the 
Town 
of 
Jay, 
a 
curved 
distance 
of 
fifty 
and 
thirty-five 
hundredths (50.35) feet, to a set rebar; thence south 81 degrees 
minutes 
seconds east through former 
railroad land, 
a 
distance of sixty-six and fifteen-hundredths (66.15) feet, to the 
first mentioned set rebar, being the point of beginning. 
All 
bearings are magnetic 1994. 
All set rebar are topped with a 
plastic cap stamped "Kachnovich PLS 1134." 
The above parcel of 
land being over 
a 
portion of 
land of 
the State of Maine, 
Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands as recorded 
in the Franklin County Registry of Deeds in Book 1889, Page 173. 
See 
survey 
plan entitled 
"(Boundary 
Survey 
Land 
of 
the 
Inhabi tants of the Town of Jay -
total area = 34.38 acres)," 
revised February 2005 -
compiled by Kachnovich Land Surveying; 
and be it further 
Sec. 7. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Town of Jay, County of Franklin. 
Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
within the Department of Conservation may 
by quitclaim deed 
without covenant convey for fair market value, and on such other 
terms 
and 
conditions 
as 
the 
director 
may 
direct, 
including 
maintenance 
and 
safety 
obligations 
and 
responsibilities, 
to 
Richard S. and Jeanne M. 
Jacksoni a new Jackson trail-crossing 
easement sixteen (16) 
feet wide by sixty-six (66) feet long, 
located at Station 2552+11 in the Town of Jay, Maine and in 
exchange for release of the existing sixteen (16) foot-wide by 
sixty-six 
(66) 
foot-long 
Jackson 
railroad 
crossing 
easement 
previously conveyed to Richard S. and Jeanne M. 
Jackson located 
at Station 2549+11; and be it further 
Sec. 8. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain real estate in Town of Crystal, County of 
Aroostook and Town of Patten, or Town of Sherman, County of Penobscot. 
Resolved: 
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
within the Department of Conservation may by quitclaim deed 
without covenant convey on 
such terms 
and conditions as 
the 
director may direct, including maintenance and safety obligations 
and responsibilities, to J. M. 
Huber Corp., an easement located 
in the Town of Crystal, Maine and the Town of Patten or the Town 
of Sherman, Maine for purposes of forest production, management 
and harvesting. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Parks 
and 
Lands 
within 
the 
Department 
of 
Conservation 
to 
convey 
property or interests in property at locations described in this 
resolve 
for fair market value 
and 
on 
such other 
terms 
and 
conditions as the director may direct. 
Any proceeds from the 
sale of land must be used to purchase additional land in the same 
county for the same purpose.