Allagash council established

    AUGUSTA, Maine — Governor John E. Baldacci today signed into law “An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Working Group.”
    The law creates an independent advisory council to represent the public interest in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, elevates the status of the waterway within the Department of Conservation and establishes an endowment fund to support capital improvements.
“I believe this is a new beginning for the Allagash,” Governor Baldacci said. “This law will help to preserve and enhance this great state treasure and open a new era of communication, cooperation and collaboration among all the people who hold it dear.”
The law, L.D. 1419, was passed as an emergency and will take effect immediately.