Word: allagash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Facilities. Of all the wilderness areas in the U.S., few are as unpeopled or uncelebrated as the north Maine woods, a braw land of pristine lakes, cathedral-quiet woodlands and rushing trout streams that sprawls over 2.5 million acres and contains the famed Allagash and St. John white-water canoeing streams. Inside the ten check-in points, where out-of-state visitors pay a $2-per-night fee, there are no rangers, gas stations, restaurants or stores. Scattered through the woods are some 500 campsites, none with "facilities." The lumber companies that own most of the woods have built dirt...
...Manifest is the result of a $44,000 study by The Allagash Group, an informal think tank in Bath, Me. Behind Allagash is John Cole, 49, editor of the weekly Maine Times, who has put his journalistic experience to good use. "When you do a research job," he explains, "you've got to package it for the public." Hence the newspaper format, style and distribution...