Monday, November 17, 2025

Mystery Fuels Unease in Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain?

An anonymous new owner fenced off beloved trails and put up surveillance cameras in a region with a long tradition of allowing public access on private land.

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After I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's compound in Palo Alto, I got a tip it might have been him who bought a mountain in Maine and closed public trails. My colleague in New England went to the mountain to investigate ... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u ...

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-- Heather Knight (@heatherknightsf.bsky.social) Nov 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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The locals can't hike the trails they enjoyed for decades, thanks to the greedy, selfish zillionaire. Location: Burnt Jacket Mountain Off Limits to Hikers

In this article, you can see how the oligarchs live opulently and away from the hoi polloi :
The Wealthy Look Down Upon Us.

And in Brentwood, LA, a country club put up barbed wire on its fence for security, outraging the community: Country Club Uses Barbed Wire.


And there were some New Yorkers who voted against Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor this past election, supposedly because he's a "Socialist."

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-17 08:07 AM

Any takers for which mega-oligarch just ruined the lives of the people in that Maine village? i.ytimg.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-17 08:43 AM

Mark Zuckerberg.

Magat Boof, pretty boy,

Oligarch via Facebook.

Selfish -----.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-17 09:03 AM

Mark Zuckerberg.
Magat Boof, pretty boy,
Oligarch via Facebook.
Selfish -----.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-17 09:03 AM | Reply | Flag: Guilty of each enumeration above and other vile epithets.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-17 09:12 AM

More from the cited article ...

... So when "No Trespassing" signs showed up around Burnt Jacket Mountain, at the edge of Moosehead Lake, this summer, it did not go unnoticed. Neither did the new surveillance cameras and locked gates in the woods, nor the crews cutting a new road up the mountain who deflected questions from neighbors by citing nondisclosure agreements.

In the tiny town of Beaver Cove, which has about 100 year-round residents, and in the wider Moosehead region, the anonymous incursion stoked unease, and a fixation: Who was the mountain's new owner?

The project, and the discomfort it has spawned, follows years of accelerating change in the North Maine Woods, a region nearly twice the size of Massachusetts. As Covid-19 pandemic transplants and other wealthy newcomers have put down roots -- and in some cases, put up fences -- and as housing costs and real estate taxes have ballooned, some residents feel a deepening concern.

"When we first came here, you could go anywhere, land your kayak anywhere, and you never gave it a thought," said Donald Campbell, a retired New York City teacher who has spent 35 summers in a modest lakeside cabin near Burnt Jacket Mountain. "Now, there's hardly a place you can land. There's a feeling of sadness at losing something, a tradition of access, that maybe wasn't written down but was understood."
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#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-17 01:19 PM

Zuckerberg is such a piece of s*&^.

Fabulously wealthy by creating one of the worst things to happen to society in my lifetime.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-17 02:24 PM

@#6 ... Fabulously wealthy by creating one of the worst things to happen to society in my lifetime. ...

My guess is that... if Facebook were a drug, it's addiction level would be classified in the opioid range.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-17 02:36 PM

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