May 29, 2004

Dear Ms. Crotty,

I am still very concerned about the DEC's Current Project to manage our forests in Putnam, specifically Mount Nimham. The people from Putnam had three meetings with your messengers last fall and Senator Leibell and Assembly Woman Galaf had a meeting with you also.

Let me be direct. If there are not significant changes to your current management plan for Mount Nimham, you will certainly be once again battling with the People and the Town of Kent, and Putnam County. We have given your messengers a number of ways to redirect your study to private lands and have suggested we would be interested in working with the DEC on managing the forest for old growth.

We will not allow you to come in here to create a tree-farm showroom. I think most of us would work with the DEC if they started listening to the people. Sorry, you're picking on the wrong forest!!!!


Best regards,

MK

"Certainly, one option should always be, what happens if we just let it alone and let it resort to its fully natural state? A forest left alone and allowed over time to become something approximating what was here before settlement is the best of all possible worlds." - Bob Irwin, Conservation Director, World Wildlife Fund
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