nature.org — The last big piece of privately owned timberland in the Adirondacks -- 161,000 acres of hardwood forests, 80 mountain peaks, 70 crystal-clear lakes and ponds, undammed rivers, white water gorges and secluded bogs -- has been sold for $110 million to The Nature Conservancy, in a move intended to protect the land from future development.
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thcobbsJun 19, 2007
I was just stating what I HOPED they would do. Jeeze... learn to read a statement... not read into it your own bias.
ellsassJun 19, 2007
@silentspyder"If they do make it for recreational use, I hope they don't pave anything, dirt paths if anything. And if anyone wants to trek into it, they gotta do it the hard way, Lewis and Clark style."Dirt paths might actually help conserve it. If people are left to their own devices, they might think they're Indiana Jones and haphazardly slash through brush with their machetes, starting campfires that spread into forest fires, and generally make a mess of things. Paved roads would be bad, yes, but a simply dirt path to guide people along the same routes would go a long way to keeping things intact.
idragonflyJun 20, 2007
This is very happy news.Thumbs up Nature Conservancy!
xseedJun 20, 2007
good
silentspyderJun 20, 2007
but they could or their sons could.
astanhopeJun 22, 2007
This is such a good thing. Public conservation is better. Why wouldn't everyone support keeping ANWR preserved as is and spare it from oil extraction development? It's the same thing.
lafindumondeMay 7, 2008
Well done. In fact, Adirondack means "bark eater," a term derived from the exiled natives sent to the ADK's to die. Along the route of starvation, many were said to have eaten the bark off the trees in an attempt to survive. 1.