Fw: The Quabbin Forest Massacre

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Joseph Zorzin

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Feb 1, 2010, 4:10:59 PM2/1/10

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This is an update of Chris Matera's ongoing documentation of "forest management" at the Quabbin Reservoir. He flew over the Quabbin last week and this report has photos from that flight.

Joe

----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Matera

To: Chris

Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:21 PM

Subject: The Quabbin Forest Massacre

The Quabbin Forest Massacre

According to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR):

“The primary purpose of DCR water and surrounding lands is drinking water supply. Public

access, therefore, is carefully regulated and controlled to protect over 2 million people’s source

of drinking water. State regulations require all entry and exit through gates or other designated

areas only. Anything that could pollute the water supply system, such as litter or refuse of any

sort, is prohibited. Please observe restrictions on recreational activities.”

Yet, the state has recently initiated aggressive logging and clearcutting of the Quabbin watershed

protection forests rather than strongly protecting these forests as mandated by law to maintain the

quality of Boston’s drinking water. Please see recent Quabbin clearcutting photos, including

new aerial photos at the following link (9 MB)

www.maforests.org/QUABBIN.pdf

Your voice is needed to help save our state

public forests, watersheds and parks:

Please submit comments regarding fully protecting state public forests, watersheds

and parks from commercial logging to the “Forest Futures Vision” process by

February 22, 2010 by sending an email to: MODRD...@umb.edu

For “Forest Futures Vision” process details see: www.maforests.org/Handout.pdf

Also, attend one of the public forest forums between Feb 4^th and Feb 11th, but be sure to submit

written comments to the e-mail address above to ensure they are included in the record. Public forum

times and locations can be seen at: www.mass.gov/dcr/news/publicmeetings/forestryfvpupcoming.htm

By fully protecting state public forests, watersheds and parks from commercial logging, we can protect

11% of Massachusetts land area in parks and reserves and simultaneously prevent biomass plants from

using state public forests as a source of fuel.

Thanks for your help

Chris

Massachusetts Forest Watch
www.maforests.org
www.maforests.org/Biomess.ppt
413-341-3878
Speak Up For The Trees!