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A logging truck leaving a private woodlot managed
for sustainable harvest. When the State of New York acquires
timber producing land in the Adirondacks, it converts the land
to “forever wild.” The State’s
massive land acquisitions are strangling the forest-based industry. |
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A truck load of pine logs leaves for a local mill
in the Adirondacks. As a result of the State’s aggressive
land acquisition policies, spurred on by the environmental movement,
the Adirondack land available for timber harvest has been reduced
over 300,000 acres during the past five years. At this rate of
gobbling up productive land, local people will watch the last
logging truck roll down a woods road like this to the last mill
in the Adirondacks in only 40 to 50 years. |
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Beaver created this pond over the past ten years,
flooding and killing the trees that had grown up into a forest
where a farm pasture rolled gently between stone walls sixty
to eighty years ago. |
