For years now, people who support the creation of a national park in the Katahdin region have said a park would produce economic benefits for Maine and local towns. Opponents have argued, meanwhile, that such a park would limit existing and potential future businesses. On Thursday, Roxanne Quimby’s land-holdings company released two economic studies that clarify, to an extent, the economic effect of a national park and recreation area.
The overall takeaway from the studies commissioned by the company, Elliotsville Plantation Inc., is that a 75,000-acre national park and 75,000-acre recreation area would grow both low- and high-income jobs, draw more people and businesses and generate more tax money for Penobscot County.…