Massachusetts Forest Watch

devinqraber
Dec 1, 2024
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History of recent logging in Massachusetts. Photos are worth a thousand words.

This is what is at risk.

Savoy State Forest, “Shelterwood Logging” New State Road, 2008

Quabbin Reservation, Boston’s Drinking Water Supply Watershed

Woodward Road, Ground View, December 2009

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned

and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money"

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