MMTA Removes Derelict Canoes
MMTA Removes Derelict Canoes Mar 10, 2021 The Maine Marine Trades Association sent six volunteers on snowmobiles and snowshoes to help remove derelict canoes in the northern part of the state, The rendezvous took place at Slaughter Pond in the Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area, managed by The Nature Conservancy in the Pine Tree State’s Mount Katahdin region. The volunteers started with a 20-mile snowmobile ride, then snowshoed more than two miles to the remote 66-acre pond in search of four unregistered fiberglass canoes. “I had seen the canoe problem on some of our beautiful, remote wil...