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... 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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