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COMMENTS - MARCH, 1997
I have added this page to the First Mountain Forest Homepage to offer our periodic comments and to allow a more informal way to address those persons viewing our homepage. The homepage has been posted on the net to showcase our individual effort to protect a small landscape in a world with too few protections for the natural world.
While our individual efforts cannot hope to achieve the success of a Nature Conservancy or government initiative, we believe that individuals acting alone, and with their neighbors, can make a significant difference. I believe that our neighbors along the Androscoggin River share the same desire to protect their still pristine valley and will complement our efforts in their own manner.
If you do not already know us, you are probably wondering just who we are. We are currently flatlanders living in central Indiana in a city of over one million persons. Over the past twenty some years we have watched almost every small woodland or open space in our vicinity be turned into residential tracts or commercial development. What little scenic beauty is left must be shared with scores of people and heavy signs of man's touch.
We both have good jobs where we now live, and appreciate the benefits that come from living in a large metropolis, but have always known that we would leave for mountains and forest when the opportunity came. That opportunity is almost here. Whether we choose the wild, coastal beauty of Maine or our mountain slope in the Mahoosucs as our next home, we will move to an open, natural area.
Next month, I hope to tell you of our impressions of the small town of Shelburne.
Larry
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