Press Releases
A selection of recent articles and press releases on the activities of Elliotsville Plantation, Inc., and on Roxanne Quimby's related efforts in business and the arts can be accessed online below:
Maine vs. Thoreau: The Roxanne Quimby question
There’s a woman in Maine, Ms. Roxanne Quimby, who hopes to give the National Park Service 70,000 acres of northern Maine woods which she owns so that it can become America’s 59th national park, and just in time for the Park Service centennial coming up August 25th, 2016.
Roxanne Quimby purchases forestland east of the Penobscot East Branch
Elliotsville Plantation, Inc. (EPI), announces today that Roxanne Quimby has purchased 11,291acres of forestland east of the East Branch of the Penobscot River in T4 R7 and T5 R7, Maine.
Roxanne Quimby purchases forestland east of the AT in north-central Maine
Elliotsville Plantation, Inc., announces today that Roxanne Quimby has purchased 965 acres of forestland east of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (AT) in Elliotsville Township, Maine.
Mill towns now look to saving trees
A millionaire's plan to donate 70,000 acres of Maine's storied North Woods for a national park will, depending on whom you ask, either save this struggling region or doom it.
Millinocket residents turn out to hear Quimby's pitch for national park
Even on a hot July weeknight, Roxanne Quimby can draw a crowd. About 200 people filled the Stearns High School in Millinocket to hear Quimby and the mayors of two gateway communities to the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado make the case for national parks and their marketing potential.
Quimby's park plan could boost Millinocket's area's economy
The fat, colorful 15-inch trout took my fly, dived for the bottom of the river, and lay there shaking his head. My 5-weight fly rod bent double as I held on tight.
Quimby presents plan for national park, donations
Five years ago Roxanne Quimby reached out to her major critics – including me - to talk about the future of her Maine lands. At that time I could never have imagined what I heard Roxanne tell Millinocket area residents on May 5.
Roxanne Quimby discusses her plans for her wildlands
Roxanne Quimby, a conservation philanthropist who wants to donate more than 70,000 acres she owns next to Baxter State Park to establish a national park, met face to face Thursday with more than 100 park supporters and opponents.
Roxanne Quimby purchases historic Lunksoos Camps on Penobscot East Branch in Maine
Elliotsville Plantation, Inc. (EPI), announces today that Roxanne Quimby has purchased Lunksoos Camps, an historic wilderness sporting facility on the East Branch of the Penobscot River in Maine.
Quimby donation ensures access to North Woods
Roxanne Quimby describes herself as an artist, but instead of painting landscapes to convey her vision, she buys them.
Burt's Bee founder wants to donate national park
Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods—and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.
Sledders to use part of Elliotsville road
The Piscataquis County commissioners on Tuesday approved the use of about a half-mile of Elliottsville Road for snowmobile traffic.
11 people to watch in '11
While all eyes will be on Paul LePage, Maine’s incoming governor and the first Republican to serve as the state’s chief executive in 16 years, there are many other Mainers — some household names, some who work behind the scenes — that we also expect to make headlines in 2011.
Quimby OKs snowmobiles on connecting trail
Snowmobilers may continue to use Connecting Trail 110 from Brownville to Greenville this season thanks to conservationist philanthropist Roxanne Quimby.
O'Leary returns to run Quimby charities
The philantropist wants him to unify the work of three groups in promoting the arts, preservation, and better lives.
Major Quimby land deal in Katahdin region settled
Two of the three parcels involved in a complicated deal between Roxanne Quimby (through her Elliotsville Plantation corporation), the Trust for Public Land, and Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands, are finally ready to change hands.
The National Park Foundation welcomes three new directors to its board
The National Park Foundation announced the appointment of three new directors to its board. The appointments were made by Secretary of the Interior and National Park Foundation Board Chair Ken Salazar. Jeremy Jaech, Roxanne Quimby, David Shaw will join the NPF Board, providing additional expertise to the Foundation as it executes its mission to strengthen the connection between the American people and their national parks.
State, Quimby agree land deal
State officials said Wednesday they have negotiated a final agreement with Roxanne Quimby to purchase thousands of acres in the Millinocket area in a deal that has helped thaw often chilly relations between sportsmen and the controversial conservationist.
Roxanne Quimby: artist, entrepreneur, tireless supporter of the arts
First she went back to the land. Now, she's returning to her childhood passion: art. This summer, Burts Bee's founder Roxanne Quimby plans on hosting an artist-in-residence colony in Portland's historic arts district.