ENTS, The following article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today. Kirk Johnson sent it out to members of the Friends of the Allegheny Wilderness list. I thought it was well written and wanted to share it with the rest of the ENTS list. Click on the link to read the full essay.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Sunday Forum / Sunday, August 30, 2009 The flatlander and the backhoe In the still beauty of the Allegheny National Forest, I heard banging ... so I got busy trying to save the land I love, says R. ALAN KLENOVICH Folks in the Allegheny National Forest region could accurately term me a "flatlander." Some might refer to me as a "mup-ear." Well, I am a mup-ear. And I have been coming up here since I was 12 years old. In the past 50 years I have made over 550 trips to the forest from Mercer County at around 250 miles per round trip. That comes to 137,500 miles or the same as circling Earth 5.5 times. So, yes, I guess you could say this flatlander is a true mup-ear. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09242/993974-109.stm Edward Frank --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
