Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1424
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: HICKMAN

Legislative Document 
No. 1424 
H.P. 970 
House of Representatives, May 19, 2015 
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department 
of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and 
Lands 
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed. 
ROBERT B. HUNT 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative HICKMAN of Winthrop.  (GOVERNOR'S BILL) 
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 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may sell or exchange lands or interests in lands 
with the approval of the Legislature in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
5, section 6209 and Title 12, sections 1814, 1837 and 1851; now, therefore, be it 
Sec. 1.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in lands in Aroostook County in 
exchange for other interests or properties.   Resolved:  That the Director of the 
Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry may by quitclaim deed without covenant, for negotiated value, and on such other 
terms and conditions as the director may direct, convey or release all interests held by the 
bureau in the following properties to Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc. and Prentiss 
and Carlisle Management Company in exchange for conveyance of property or interests 
in properties or other consideration from Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc. and Prentiss 
and Carlisle Management Company. 
1.  The property interests to be conveyed by the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry, by and through the Bureau of Parks and Lands, to Prentiss 
and Carlisle Company, Inc. and to Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company on behalf 
of other minority interests are all of the State's minority common and undivided interest 
in forested acres without flowage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4, which is approximately 
1,329 equivalent acres. 
2.  The property interests to be conveyed by Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc. and 
Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company on behalf of other minority interests to the 
State by and through the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau 
of Parks and Lands are: 
A.  All of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc.'s common and undivided interests in 
forested acres without flowage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4 north of Scopan Lake and 
all of the remaining minority common and undivided interests in forested acres 
without flowage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4 north of Scopan Lake by and through 
Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, which is together approximately 16 
equivalent acres; 
B.  All of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc.'s minority common and undivided 
interests in forested acres without flowage easements in T.10 R.4 NE/4 by and 
through Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, which is approximately 309 
equivalent acres; 
C.  All of the minority common and undivided interests in T.11 R.4 E/2 by and 
through Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, which is together 
approximately 254 equivalent acres; and 
D.  All or a portion of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc.'s interests in T.13 R.5, 
T.13 R.13 and T.12 R.13, or other parcels or other consideration from Prentiss and 
Carlisle Company, Inc. as may be needed in combination with the foregoing to be of 
equivalent value, as determined by the director, to the conveyance of the State to 
Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc. in T.10 R.4 SE/4 as described in subsection 1; 
and be it further 
Sec. 2.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in land in Aroostook County in exchange 
for other interests or properties. Resolved:  That the Director of the Bureau of 
Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may 
by quitclaim deed without covenant, for exchange of land or interests in land of 
comparable value as determined by an appraiser and on such other terms and conditions 
as the director may direct, convey to Smith's Farm, Inc. a certain parcel of land, situated 
in the Town of Westfield, on the Southern Bangor and Aroostook Rail Trail, being an 
average width of 119 feet and an approximate length of 2,000 feet, or about 5.47 acres; 
and be it further 
Sec. 3.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in land in Washington County in 
exchange for other interests or properties. Resolved:  That the Director of the 
Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry may by quitclaim deed without covenant, for exchange of land or interests in 
land of comparable value as determined by an appraiser and on such other terms and 
conditions as the director may direct, convey to Cherryfield Foods, Inc. a certain parcel in 
T.24 MD BPP, being 320 acres more or less, in exchange for 320 acres more or less of 
land of comparable value in T.24 MD BPP; and be it further 
Sec. 4.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in land in Oxford County in exchange for 
other interests or properties. Resolved:  That the Director of the Bureau of Parks 
and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may by 
quitclaim deed without covenant, for exchange of land of comparable value and such 
other terms and conditions as the director may direct, convey to Six Rivers Limited 
Partnership a parcel of land of approximately 0.4 acre abutting Six Rivers Limited 
Partnership lands on Aziscohos Lake in Lincoln Plantation, in exchange for 
approximately 3.5 acres on the South Arm Road in Township C with access to Lower 
Richardson Lake, presently used as a boat launch; and be it further 
Sec. 5.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in land in Aroostook County.  Resolved:  
That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry may convey the bureau's minority interest to the majority 
owners of 2 2-acre camp lot parcels on Scopan Lake, more specifically: 
1.  To convey by quitclaim deed without covenant the bureau's 28.817% interest in a 
certain 2-acre parcel, for fair market value, to Robert W. Sawyer, of Ashland, acting on 
behalf of majority owners Robert W. Sawyer V and Sawyer Family Limited Partnership, 
together owners of 71.183%; and 
2.  To convey by quitclaim deed without covenant the bureau's 28.817% interest in a 
certain 2-acre parcel, for fair market value, to Jacque Morneau, of Mapleton, majority 
owner of 71.183%; and be it further 
Sec. 6.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey Halfway Rock Island in Casco Bay, Cumberland County.  
Resolved:  That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may convey, for fair market value and on such 
other terms and conditions as the director may direct, Halfway Rock Island in Casco Bay 
in the Town of Chebeague Island, being approximately 1.5 acres, to the United States 
General Services Administration or its assignee. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve allows the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the 
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to dispose of the bureau's minority 
interests in lands adjacent to the bureau's Scopan Public Reserved Lands Unit in 
Aroostook County in exchange for interests of comparable value, including all minority 
interests held by others in the bureau's Scopan Public Reserved Lands Unit. 
It allows the director to convey lands along the Southern Bangor and Aroostook Rail 
Trail in the Town of Westfield to an abutter, Smith's Farms, Inc. This conveyance is in 
exchange for a newly developed trail corridor, located on Smith's Farm property between 
the existing rail trail and the Prestile Stream, averaging 99 feet wide and being 
approximately 2,400 feet in length, or 5.47 acres. 
It allows the director to convey an approximately 320-acre parcel in T.24 MD BPP in 
Washington County in exchange for a parcel of comparable size and value.  Cherryfield 
Foods, Inc. will acquire state lands on which it formerly held a lease for blueberry 
production, which are surrounded by other lands owned and managed by Cherryfield 
Foods, Inc.; and in exchange the bureau will acquire an approximately 320-acre wooded 
parcel abutting Mopang Stream, with deeded access. 
It allows the director to exchange a small parcel of land on Aziscohos Lake, a 
discontinued 0.4-acre leased camp lot on public reserved lands, for a 3.5-acre parcel of 
land with a small amount of frontage on Lower Richardson Lake, currently used as a boat 
launch. 
It allows the director to convey the bureau's minority interest to the majority interest 
family owners of 2 2-acre lots on Scopan Lake for fair market value.  These lots, which 
are located on the south shore of the lake, are not within the bureau's Scopan Public 
Reserved Lands Unit. 
It allows the director to convey Halfway Rock Island to the United States General 
Services Administration or its assignee for fair market value.