Lilieholm Quoted in WLBZ Report on Telephone Meeting to Discuss National Park
Robert Lilieholm, the E.L. Giddings professor of forest policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in a WLBZ (Channel 2) report about a teleconference town hall meeting planned for Wednesday, April 1 to discuss the proposed Katahdin-region national park. The amount of jobs the park would generate has been researched and predicted by Headwaters Economics and peer reviewed by state economists, according to the report.
“There are plenty of examples across the U.S. where national parks and other types of protected areas have really become these engines of economic growth, and we’re seeing as these areas are created and as they grow, new businesses come into the area. It’d be very, very unusually for this not to be an economic success,” said Lilieholm, one of the reviewers of the Headwaters prediction.