David Sharp

The converted turkey coop that a co-founder of Burt’s Bees once called home in Maine is going to be saved and displayed at the company’s headquarters in North Carolina. Burt’s Bees has bought the structure where Burt Shavitz once lived and has moved it to Durham, where it’s going on display this fall. “It’s a legacy project. It’s going to be maintained so that people can see it and appreciate it,” said Trevor Folsom, Shavitz’s former personal assistant, who inherited the structure. “I just felt that it should always be taken care of, no matter what.” The 300-square-foot shelter with...

TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine — Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt’s Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine’s fabled North Woods — and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses. Quimby, who became known as one of the Research Triangle Park, N.C. area’s top entrepreneurs while running Burt’s Bees in Durham, confronted the hornet’s nest she’d stirred up head-on — calling one of her sharpest critics, George Smith, then-executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine. Smith couldn’t believe his ears....