Deer Habitat Threatened. Interagencies Don’t Talk?
January 15, 2008
Maine Huts and Trails is a business, disguised as an environmentally friendly entity, out to save our planet. Well, maybe that’s a bit over the top but read what they say about themselves on their website.
Maine Huts and Trails was founded by Mainers who share a vision for preserving our state’s naturally beautiful remote areas. To that end we will build and operate a 180-mile recreational corridor from the Mahoosucs to Moosehead. The corridor will include a network of huts, trails and waterway corridors. This unique resource will preserve some of Western Maine’s best backcountry for the purposes of conservation and environmentally sensitive economic development, and ensure public access for generations to come.
Don’t believe everything you read. These “huts” turned out to be 4,500 square foot lodges equipped to handle up to 40 guests and some of what they are doing is not so much of a “conservation and environmentally sensitive economic development”.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with the project providing that it complies with the laws of the land but please, let’s stop painting a picture of this as something it isn’t. Read more
After a little internet searching, reading, and checking up on this stuff I found its a pretty well established product in Canada and hails from Quebec where they have this funny habit of speaking a lot of French. Thus the name, Jig-A-Loo, and the companys claim it derives from a saying they have up north, Ive got it! 
