There are too many inaccuracies in Chris Egan’s My Turn [“Setting the record straight”] piece to enumerate here. Those working to prevent the cutting of 100-year-old trees in Wendell State Forest have been constant on three main points. 1. We are opposed to timber extraction in our public state forests and have been excluded from any meaningful participation in the cutting plans. We have been denied our due process because DCR has repeatedly refused to meet with us and has missed several public records requests deadlines, including those ordered by the Massachusetts Secretary of State. 2. We are in a climate emergency and so we protest by attempting to slow the cutting while filing for a temporary injunction. 3. The “management” of our state forests is not supported by the most recent forest studies and by the climate science that says we must preserve our intact forests to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Our state forests are not tree farms.
Lynn Waldron
Wendell State Forest Alliance
Greenfield