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In 1930 a former governor of Maine spent his own money on 5,960 acres of paper company land around the state's highest mountain. He kept buying and handing it over in 28 separate deeds until 1962, with most of the park required to remain forever wild, and it reached 201,018 acres.

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (621+ words) When a politician's legislative dreams died, he spent three decades and his own fortune assembling a wilderness park one deed at a time. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Most conservation stories are about…...