HOULTON, Maine — If you were to go offroading near Katahdin Lodge on Aroostook Scenic Highway Route 11, you may come across Pickett Mountain, a small peak located roughly 25 miles from Baxter State Park that is surrounded by several lakes and ponds populated with brook trout that make the area ideal for some quiet fishing. 

But this remote, serene area near the Penobscot-Aroostook county line is likely to be the center of an environmental battle as Maine’s recently enacted mining law — considered to be among the toughest in the nation — is tested for the first time. 

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