…Montana-based Headwaters Economics, which has done work for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, said a national park can provide a big economic boost.
“Northern Maine clearly needs a new economic idea,” Ben Alexander, associate director of Headwaters Economics, said Thursday. “Are people ready to try something else? That’s not for me to say. But if you look at other places with (national parks), it clearly indicates there’s an opportunity here.”…