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The hearing is part of a process to determine whether the Land Use Planning Commission will approve a rezoning application from Wolfden.

Wolfden Chase Mtn. LLC says that Pickett Mountain has the country’s largest undeveloped reserves of a type of ore that contains high-grade zinc and smaller but still commercially valuable amounts of copper, lead, silver and gold.

Wolfden Resources Corporation is a Canadian mining company that purchased land currently zoned as a “protection district” near Mount Chase, Maine ,and the North Gate of Baxter State Park, as well as about five miles from the entrance to Katahdin...

By Jen Brophy and Igor Sikorsky As longtime owners of sporting camps in Maine, we know the deep connection that a clean and healthy environment has to the state’s economic success.  Maine’s North Woods are the backbone of a booming outdoor recreation economy.

"We cannot afford to put this unique place at risk with a mine."

Continuing along the old logging road, Fran and I felt certain the little guy would turn around and head back home. This was not the case, as our mysterious friend

The Wolfden proposal is the first real test of a mining law passed in 2017 to protect Maine’s environment.

To the Editor; I write to express my concern that the water quality, fisheries and outdoor economy of the Katahdin Region are once again at risk of permanent degradation. Canada-based Wolfden Resources Corporation has submitted a second application to the Land Use Planning Commission to allow a metallic mineral mine at Pickett Mountain near Patten, Baxter State Park, and Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

A recent petition put the Pickett Mountain mining project up for a second Mt. Chase town vote on a non-binding resolution in support of the project.

The following cases were heard under the Aroostook Criminal Docket at the Houlton Courthouse in January.