Wind Farm Bad For Shelburne, MA USA

Wind Farm Bad For Shelburne, MA USA

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2011

Let native species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes

reoccupy the natural landscape.

Return the forest. Don't build in it and don't burn biomass.

We support #OWS.

Let Other Species Occupy the Natural Landscape

We support #OWS.

The Species List Forest, Conway, MA USA is a place that is occupied by many native species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes. It wasn't that way until ten years ago when all people, building, animal under human management (AUHM) and trash were removed. In addition, non-native invasive are being removed. Our 84 acres signage located only on our boundaries is for people control. This signage has been very successful in stopping hunting and the harm caused by people. Walking only is permitted however there are no trails.

Reoccupation of acres by other species continues.

Much "conserved" land in New England, USA continues to be controlled by money and misinformed people. Acres are not returned. Big pale green conservancy land trusts continue to use the acres they control for some people-related uses and in the process the lands they own are degraded and the natural world suffers.

Green Inc. land trusts of note advertise that YOUR land will be conserved, but that is not true. In fact, once given by or purchased as a conservation sale acres are then re-sold, exchanged or used for logging, used for gas and minerals, developed for nature trails, used for hunting, added to campuses and dedicated for other cultural uses that degrade the natural landscape.

Native Species Call to You ...

The Natural Landscape Calls to You ...

Don't Convert Acres to Dollars.

Don't hold onto nature for some future family use.

Don't Sell Your Land or Restrictions to a Conservancy.

Give the Land Freely.

Make sure they will return it, not develop it in any way, not sell it, not extract anything from it and not exchange it.

Do You Love it? Yes?

Your First Duty is to Serve the Natural Landscape.

Return the land before you are dead.

I did.

It will probably be the greatest permanent thing that you will ever do.

Does a green reality lie at the end of our environmental quest?

10 Year Anniversary of the Species List Forest, Conway, MA USA

A Green Reality!

It's true! A green reality lies at the end of our environmental quest

What Massachusetts Forest Was This?

Spotted on Interstate 91 near the Species List Forest.

This could be from our Massachusetts state forests. Logging state lands is a habit. There is much shame in a handful of people cutting the commons.

Who Will Say the Natural Landscape Has Rights?

Who Will Defend the Forests?

Foresters Don't and Never Will - Foresters are Businessmen.

Read

UN CBD Fails to Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees

Contact: Anne Petermann, Co-Coordinator, STOP GE Trees Campaign

+49 (0) 160 435 9236 (Bonn mobile good until 09:00 on 1 June)

+1 802 578 0477 (US mobile good as of 17:00 on 1 June)

You Don't Have to Go to Brazil to Defend a Forest

The Natural Landscape has Rights

(but few are willing to say so).

Sea Shepherd Galapagos: A Major Step Towards the Creation of the First Judiciary on the Rights of Nature in the World, Sea Shepherd News, Wednesday, November 03, 2010.

The Species List Forest agrees.

There must be laws to protect the least among us.

The Species List Forest is proud to protect millions of species of

terrestrial plants, animals, fungi and microbes within our boundaries.

Return of the Forest vs Frank LLoyd Wright

Species List Forest, Conway, MA USA

How Frank Wright Reduced the Natural Landscape to a Playground for the Rich

Memories of Richard Stafursky, Brattleboro, VT

Unlike all of our eight abutters, we are happy when our open areas are free of human direction and are once again under the control of natural forces and processes. But fifty years previously my father was, in my eyes, competing as champion as worst natural landscape offender. I'll try to explain. As I was growing up in this place in the 1950's and 1960's my father constantly was working on our house. It was an isolated property one quarter mile form the Conway, Buckland, MA town line at the end of the Shelburne Falls Road Conway bus route. If fact, our house was the last house on the mountain road just before you cross the town line. The house was originally a cottage last used by local gin drinkers from Orange, Massachusetts. I remember that cottage then. It was a snug, happy, hot water, cast iron radiator heated home with hay barn/garage. That was to all change by the 1950's.

In addition to keeping a few dairy cows and raising their offspring for the butcher shop Dad was constantly modifying the land with stone work and plantings. My father wanted to "be" Frank LLoyd Wright and every modification to our house and grounds was intended to transform it into a Frank LLoyd Wright knockoff estate. By that I mean he replaced eves with cantilevered overhangs and the wood floor with red concrete. New England storm windows, so effective in winter, were replaced with one-pane picture windows more suited for warmer, Arizona-like climates. The new roof leaked and the replacement picture windows frosted on the inside. I spent many hours helping him scrape paint off these huge, building demolitioned, logo painted, plateglass monsters. I helped him buy redwood siding he used in the room interiors. He even added skylights and picture windows. I think only my mother did more detailing of the natural wood panels than I did. She spent many hours steeped in fumes on a shaky folding ladder as she brushed clear finish on the natural wood and filled finish nail sets with wood putty. When I returned from the Air Forces in 1970 I bought a set of four fire extinguishers ... my fear of a Frank LLoyd Wright-like building fire vulnerability was so great. I made my mother set off one of the extinguishers in the driveway. "Don't try to save them ... they're here to be used" I said.

Every piece of rare, west coast wood that he used made me cringe. Even as a teen I knew the redwood trees needed protection. My father knew this, too, and I told him so, yet he continued to remodel. He only switched to other wood when we needed to save money. He sort of would apologize to me and say "it's not Frank LLoyd Wright, but no one will know the difference." Notice how he said the guys name and not the architectural style.

I could not understand how my father loved the local forest so, yet built so wastefully. The modifications were not intended to last. All the mortise angles were nonstandard and thus it would be difficult for future owners to repair. Whenever I overhear Dad talking about our house he would also criticize local homes as being built by stupid people. My father had been out west and had seen Frank LLoyd Wright estates. That was the only thing in his head.

I know that my dad would have loved the protection I gave to his mountains and forests. If he were alive today and could hear my reasons why I returned all his acres under my control back to the natural landscape he would have listened without a word as we sat in the woods, nodded in agreement, taken a deep breath and said, "the trees are nice" and he really meant it! I don't think he could ever, in his mind, reconcile the cultural trappings of Frank Lloyd Wright's early twentieth century, gaudy, architecture with the need of the natural landscape to be left alone. If he had had the opportunity back then he would have built a Wright waterfall house on top of the brook that now runs unfettered through the Species List Forest. He believed that one should drink in the natural landscape and that by doing so one would thus gain a certain glamor in the eyes of the rich and famous. His desire to be recognized by this ridiculous social class was so powerful that when it never happened he said within days of his death by cancer "burn all my books."

Return of the Forest vs Frank LLoyd Wright? I'll take the millions of years of natural landscape evolution any day.