Roxanne Quimby, founder of "Burts Bees," wants to donate 70,000 acres located between Baxter State Paark and the East Branch of the Penobscot River to the National Park Service.

If accepted, the new park would be twice the size of Acadia National Park, and almost twice the size of the corridor that protects the Appalachian Trail in Maine, the only other National Park lands in the state.

You can read the details at:

http://www.pressherald.com/news/anot...chterm=quimby#

Around a decade ago, Quimby sold 80 percent interest in Burts Bees to investors, and four years ago her remaining 20% interest, for a total of $350 million. She has purchased around 100,000 acres of forest land in Maine since selling her business interests.

Quimby came to Maine as part of the 70s back to the land movement. She and her boy friend built their plumbing-less home on 30 acres in central Maine. She founded Burts Bees in 1985 as a crafts project, selling bees wax candles and lip balm at county fairs. As the business prospered she moved it to the south (Georgia I think).

But after the sales she moved to Portland Maine where charitable foundations she founded, purchased lands, supported the arts. and groups such as the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust.