• Brendler, Thomas
  National Community Forestry Center Northern Forest Region
  

A case study on the effects of the damming of the outlet of Lake Umbagog on the border of Maine and New Hampshire. Umbagog, at 8,000 acres, is the second largest lake in New Hampshire, and the largest inland wetland system in the state. The outlet was dammed in the mid-1800s to power a local sawmill. As recently as the early 1990s, timber, paper and forestland investment companies owned about 86 percent of the land surrounding Umbagog. Questions have emerged: If there was to be development, what types were desirable, and how much should occur? And, more importantly, who should or would decide what was appropriate for the region?