Intro: Hello. I live in a small rural town, Berkley, MA. I moved there 7 years ago to enjoy nature and the woods around my home. The forest is where I recreate, refresh myself, meditate and dream. Trees have always interested me.
And now the bad part . . . The woods in our neighborhood are being threatened by a rock quarry. A company called Cape Cod Aggregates wants to use the wooded property in the middle of our neighborhood, surrounded by residential homes, to create a rock quarry that would be over 60 acres large and 250 feet deep - that's as deep as a 25 story skyscrapper is tall - with sheer vertical drop clifts just 200 feet from the back doors of family homes. They plan to mine the property with blasting for the next 30 years. I feel the property is important to the local ecology, as the Assonet River borders it, Quaker Brook runs through it, it contains wetlands and vernal pools. The woods contain pine, oak and chesnut and would completely disappear in order to create a giant hole so large there would be no way to reclaim the landscape. The quarry operation could dry out the wetlands (because they would be mining below the aquifer and pumping the quarry dry) contaminate the brook and river with silt and have a negative impact on the plant, wildlife and aquatic life. Has anyone on this list ever created conservation land? Know of any funding sources for that? Have suggestions for ways of blocking the quarry? All sugestions would be appreciated. Thank you. Troubled --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
