Wendell State Forest Alliance Lawsuit to Protect the Forests

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Today, my guests are Gia Neswald and Glen Ayers of the Wendell
State Forest Alliance. Their group brought a lawsuit against the
Massachusetts Dept of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR and
Secretary Kathleen Theoharides of the Exec. Office of Energy and
Environmental Affairs, to HALT the logging of forestlands in
Wendell State Forest. The goal of this and other actions they
have and intend to take is to stop DCR’s improper and
illegal commercial logging in state parks and forest throughout
the Commonwealth.


Unfortunately, their lawsuit was dismissed. But they intend to
continue on fighting for laws and regulations that protect
forests to be written and upheld.


Although State Forests are lands owned by all of us, the
residents of the Commonwealth, (insofar as land can or should be
owned at all, which is debatable) the public has basically no say
in how they are managed. There is something fundamentally wrong
about this state of affairs, and I think you’ll learn some pretty
surprising things from Gia and Glen today.


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SHOW RESOURCES


Wendell State Forest Alliance website


Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR)
website


Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) website


Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) website