Dear Lincoln, Recently, the Planning Board had an opportunity to offer some protection to wildlife in its decision-making regarding a site plan request to clear 2.8 acres of healthy forest, undeveloped land, for a driveway. The plan does not include a house at this time. One member of the Planning Board supported clearing only for the driveway because that was practicable at this stage, noting that our Bylaw 17.7.4a reads: “The landscape shall be preserved in its natural state insofar as practicable...” The other four, voting to approve clearing the full 2.8 acres, chose to bypass preservation, preferring what they called the applicant's novel idea to cut down the existing forest and strip the land to be replaced with a new meadow and new kind of forest that would have mature trees in 20-30 years.
Sometime this May or June, wildlife will be running and flying for their lives from this 2.8 acres, near Chapman pasture, to other land and trails. Please welcome them to your patch of land. If you find yourself in front of the Planning Board in the future for either a neighbor's or your own proposal, please work with other residents to protect the wildlife involved. It is up to each of us to watch out for the living, existing wildlife calling Lincoln home. Thank you for your care of wildlife. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Barbara Peskin *My Moments in Nature Photo Gallery: barbarapeskin.com <http://barbarapeskin.com>*
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