Maine Land and Water Stewardship 

The Maine Wilderness Guides Organization is a strong advocate for the conservation and restoration of remote places required for Maine Guiding.

This page highlights pending environmental legislation, proposed conservation easements and other land development plans affecting outdoor recreation in Maine.  MWGO is concerned with Maine legislation as it affects access to sporting camps and hinders outdoor enjoyment of hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking, fishing and all other Maine outdoor recreational activities.

MWGO Spotlight: North Maine Woods Land Development

Most recent information on Plum Creek Proposal at LURC web site.
More information at The Natural Resources Council of Maine web site.

"The conservation of waters, forest, mountains, and wildlife is far more than saving terrain.  It is the conservation of the human spirit which is the goal..."

 Sigurd F. Olson

 "Yet people are beginning to suspect that the greatest freedom is not achieved by sheer irresponsibility.  The earth is common ground and we are its overlords, whether we hold title or not.  Gradually the idea is taking form that the land must be held in safe keeping, that one generation is to some extent responsible to the next; and that it is contrary to the public good to allow an individual ... to destroy almost beyond repair any part of the soil or water or even the view."

 E. B. White

"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness.  Some say we had to.  Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.  Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map."

Aldo Leopold