"Help! I have strangers in my bathroom, my bedroom and my kitchen. They won't leave and there's no place left for me!"

This is how the bear, the moose, the lynx and the loons are going to feel if the Plum Creek Development plan on Moosehead Lake goes through.

The people coming to inhabit the luxury residential and resort accommodations planned by Plum Creek are not wilderness or animal lovers. If they truly were, they would have the courtesy and kindness to stay out of someone else's home, except maybe for a short visit.

And since they're not really animal or wilderness lovers, why do they have to displace animals and live in their wilderness? The truth is -- they don't!

If Plum Creek really wants to invest money in Maine, let it go to any of the cities, like Waterville or mill towns, like Millinocket or Skowhegan, that have lost factories and mills. New construction would be welcomed in places like this, jobs would still be created, and the wilderness would only be subject to day trips.

I appeal to everyone in government to stop Plum Creek in the wilderness. Wilderness cannot be replaced and Maine has a great treasure in its wilderness.

Susan Zimmerman

Madison