[at-l] Re: Modern Devices, etc./ correction

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C.)]

>"...I apologize, Weary. You called him a "delight", not a "dream."

You misunderstand again, TJ. I'm not concerned with your quotes or misquotes.

I am concerned with with your interpretation of my words. For instance, I
absolutely do not "advocate a submissive position allowing the AMC and the
lumber folks have what ever they want so long as they claim to be 'preserving'
the north woods."

Those who you quaintly call "lumber folks" consider me an enemy.

 I helped disclose the outrageous attempt to first give away and then allow
"high grading" of the  "scientific" forestry portion of Baxter Park. (High
grading is the opposite of scientific forestry. It involves cutting the best
trees, and leaving the junk wood behind to clutter up the landscape, and slow
regeneration, i.e. "cut the best; leave the rest.")

Other work by me resulted in the law suits that recovered 400,000 acres of
public lands that your "lumber folks" had claimed as their own.

Somehow, none of the lumber folks cheered when Lance Tapley, myself, AMC and a
few others snatched the Bigelow Preserve from the hands of the resort
developers, who were dreaming of creating an Aspen of the East. Your lumber
folks had expected to get rich selling their lands for condo developments.

Nor, I suspect, were the "lumber folks" happy with my role in the creation of
the 40,000 acre Mahoosuc Preserve, where they had also envisioned ski and resort
development profits.

As a member of Jonathan (Green) Carter's Forestry Ecology Network, I debated
these people you call "lumber folks" all over the state during the two
anti-clearcutting referendums of a few years ago.

Finally, I've driven several thousand miles and spent scores of hours at AMC
workshops, meetings, and forums to ensure that your speculations about their
alleged plans remain false and that their Maine development fits harmoniously
into the Maine wildlands.

Weary