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Last week Ruth and I met in Wilmington for meetings with people and organizations concerned with what is happening to our forests
in the Mid-Atlantic. This ecosystem is
among the most unique in the world, and is being clearcut for paper and paper
packaging.
We met with the Cape Fear Arch
Conservation Collaboration , which is a partnership interested in protecting this region while balancing the needs of
man and nature.We also met with
the Tree Commission of Wilmington, Friends of the Green Swamp
and other community members concerned with protecting our natural environmnent.
Overall, a very successful
trip.We look forward to future
collaborations with these organizations and to building partnerships to protect
our forests from unsustainable, industrial logging practices.
We got a tip from a local land trust that there were some fresh clearcuts nearby, so Ruth and I went to check them
out and document them. The clearcuts
were massive, and a few minutes away is the Holly Shelter Game Lands which “exhibits
excellent examples of low pocosin, wiregrass uplands, and bald cypress swamps.”
Wow, that is intense. Thanks for posting this video. A lot of people think clearcutting is in the past, but this is vivid proof what industrial forestry looks like. Yikes.
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... written by Kim,
February 25, 2009
Thanks for working to protect this special area where I grew up. It is unbelievable that our lands are still treated this way.
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