Feb 20, 2019
120 years ago Teddy Roosevelt started the US national park system
to protect and preserve shared resources. We're hard pressed to
believe that in our current political landscape - and with a
compounding national debt - that our Federal Government would
acquire any new large swaths of land for ecosystem and natural
environment conservation. In fact, it been the exact opposite
as more conserved land gets squeezed with every congressional
cycle. Well, there's a guy in the Maine woods who's got
a solution for this problem. Lucas St. Clair's has adapted an
innovative approach of succession that could attract more good
folks of resources to look at land preservation as their way of
giving back, and for planning for a more stable future.
On episode 63 we welcome Lucas St. Clair - the founder of 'Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument' - a U.S. National Monument spanning 87,563 acres of mountains and forestland in northern Penobscot County, Maine, just off the eastern border of Maine's Baxter State Park.
We begin our conversation discussing St. Clair's extensive efforts
to turn Maine Woods & Waters into a national monument. We learn of
the communities in Maine's 2nd. Of the logging empires, and of
their recent demise. We learn more about his run for Congress in
2018, and what drives him to serve at the will of the people.
A native to the Maine woods, we hear a bit of the lineage of the
iconic brand his family spawned - 'Burt's Bees'. It sounds
like good values were adhered to in both the household, and the
brand.
Joining as cohost is Jay Vilar, founder and a Practitioner at
‘Nourish’ - a bespoke consulting company with a mission to educate,
teach, and train people on the benefits of using food to heal your
body and optimize your health. He attributes his success to
principles he learned studying health, nutrition, and business
principles on increasing your energy, sharpening your mind, being a
more productive human being.