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Stop Waterville Valley Resort from expanding into White Mountain National Forest
U.S. Forest Service · White Mountain National Forest, ME
- What
- A ski resort wants to grow its footprint on public forest land, requiring changes to the governing forest plan.
- Where
- White Mountain National Forest, ME, NH
- How much
- White Mountain National Forest land is at risk of permanent development to serve a private ski resort.
- Decided
- Comments closed; deadline not stated by the agency. No decision document is on file yet.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Forest Service project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedWe haven’t found where this fight’s close date came from, so the card shows no date. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
Ellen Shultzabarger
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System
A person signed this, not an agency. The window has closed and the signature stands, which is exactly when accountability matters.
Short is better. You are asking Chief Shultzabarger to answer for a decision their office made.
My name is [your name] and I'm calling from [your city and state]. Ellen Shultzabarger, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, signed the decision on Stop Waterville Valley Resort from expanding into White Mountain National Forest. I'm asking that office to answer for it publicly. Please record that I called and tell me what the office intends to do.
Official channels only, about this decision. No personal phone numbers, no home addresses, no personal social accounts, and nothing abusive. The point is to make the office answer, and an abusive call is the one thing that lets it off the hook.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
PLAN's read: high threat
A ski resort wants to grow its footprint on public forest land, requiring changes to the governing forest plan.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
Waterville Valley Resort proposes an expansion of their special use permit, Forest Plan amendments, and projects. A public open house will be held on July 15, 2026, at 6 pm at White Mountain National Forest Headquarters and virtually via Microsoft Teams. See the documents tab below for more details.
The groups on this fight
2 groups predicted likely to care in Maine
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Maine, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Appalachian Mountain Club
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Katahdin Woods and Waters, Maine: Has permanently conserved nearly 130,000 acres of the Maine North Woods in the 100-Mile Wilderness south of Katahdin through its Maine Woods Initiative since 2003.
- Friends of Acadia
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Maine: They work only in Maine.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
Ellen Shultzabarger
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System
Where the notice says so
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over White Mountain National Forest.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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