Our Worcester Mountain Range is in SEVERE DANGER of being mauled by logging. This virtually pristine range is the last one in Vermont. It hasn't been touched for 6 generations!
The state is setting up now to begin logging it under the pretense of promoting Old Growth. This is marketing whitewash. The cutting of the large trees in their prime to open up sunlight for the younger trees to grow does not promote Old Growth. It promotes more and more logging each time the young trees grow large enough to cut.
A BETTER VISION:
Imagine, instead, the enormous potential of making the Worcester Mountain Range a DESTINATION. Hiking, walking, and exploring the range can attract an enormous amount of people. Imagine the hotels, B&Bs, restaurants and cafés surrounding the range - Stowe, Waterbury, Montpelier, Worcester, Elmore, and Morrisville - full of tired hikers and hungry families. Imagine new trails that travel more horizontally through the forest for easier hiking to rivers and boulders and untouched forest. Imagine how HEALTHY an intact forest is on all of our lives, human and the more-than-human-creatures.
A DESTINATION!
The people remembered with Grateful Appreciation are those who SAVED and PROTECTED forests, not those who cut them down. Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, Sigurd Olsen, Aldo Leopold, Senator Gaylord Nelson (started Earth Day) , and US!
I doubt anyone can think of anyone remembered with grateful appreciation for cutting a Forest.
Join us to STOP THE LOGGING!!!
There is a meeting in HARDWICK this THURSDAY evening , 6::00-8::00
SEPTEMBER 19 at the Hazen Union High School.
State officials will be there (they work for us) and WE will be there (it is Our Forest) to make our voices heard.
WE CAN STOP THIS NOW!
IT IS OUR FOREST!
👍 SEE YOU THERE 👍
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