Burt’s Bees founder Quimby wants to donate her land for national park

[Drale]

TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine — Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt’s Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine’s fabled North Woods — and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.

Quimby confronted the hornet’s nest she’d stirred up head-on — calling one of her sharpest critics, George Smith, then-executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine. Smith couldn’t believe his ears. The back-to-the-earth advocate who made millions with her eco-friendly line of personal care products was calling him at home, on a Saturday morning?

“I thought someone was playing a joke on me when she called,” Smith recalls. “She said, ‘Hi, this is Roxanne Quimby. I said, ‘Oh yeah, sure.’”

That call in 2006 opened a face-to-face dialogue with some of her biggest critics over the land she’s bought — more than 120,000 acres of woodlands.

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/03/28/outdoors/burts-bees-founder-quimby-wants-to-donate-national-park/?ref=mostReadBox++++

Anyone who opposes the National Parks or the creation of a new National park is as stupid as a tea bagger, although I would guess that the majority if not all tea baggers oppose the national parks. It has been shown time and time again that for ever one dollar of federal money given to a park tourists bring in four additional dollars.

[KansDem]

1. That's "Bee-utiful!!!"

BURT!!!

[liberal N proud]

2. Hope this is successful

It has been some time since someone was so generous.

[Bucky]

3. Sorry, but that's not a smart move.

Next time there's a Republican president, there's sure to bee a bunch of oil derricks sprouting up on that land, but you won't notice it until some lumber company has chopped down all the Maine spruces there for the usual dollar-an-acre rental fee.

[Drale]

5. Not in the National Parks they won't

[no_hypocrisy]

6. The current governor will likely sell it, no-bids.

[onehandle]

4. Hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles riders have plenty of land to fuck up.

I wish President Obama would create National Parks in the volume that other Presidents have.

[GKirk]

7. Who'd a thought

there would be so much money in hand cream.