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By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff The state has backed off on plans to build three administrative offices and as many storage barns in the restricted zone of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway after public opposition made it reconsider. The buildings were proposed for Chamberlain, Churchill Dam, and Michaud Farm ranger stations, Mark DeRoche, the waterway’s superintendent, said in March.

The state had planned to use roughly $1.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to build offices and equipment storage within the 500-foot restricted zone.

The proposed changes at three ranger stations in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway have raised opposition from a group including guides led by the waterway’s former superintendent.

The online application period closes Tuesday, Feb. 6.

Thousands recreate each year at AWW, but less well known are the hiking trails to the fire towers atop Allagash Mountain and Round Pond Mountain.

The Bureau of Parks and Lands Allagash Wilderness Waterway is continuing its Visiting Artist Program. The program’s goal is to immerse a visual artist in the AWW wilderness to interpret and share their experience through their art. The selected artist will receive: • Rustic cabin lodging on the Waterway for two weeks during August; • […]

The AWW Visiting Artist Program invites artists to the remote wilderness of Maine for two weeks of solitude.

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry