Apr 7, 2021
To the Editor:
I'd like first to mention the inspiring conversations I have had today walking Swift's Neck to talk with residents about our Vote on Sat. at 12, Spillane Field. People want to be heard. They are eager to have questions clarified and tell what they love of the natural world. In a rough poll, they are 90 percent in favor of closing the door to big city development in their town.
How did the Notos Group Limited Liability Corporation land in Wareham proposing the original 5,860 acre business district overlay with them on center stage; landing on what must have looked like prime real estate from google earth? There it was, a development zone, green on the map, ponds and river water running through it next to a major highway leading through the state with ease; New York and points south, 195 north and a skip away from Cape Cod Canal. Yes, we do look good from Google Earth, because our land is still a rich forest to sea community, filled with the beauty of ice age ponds and streams with unique and rare living beings that can be decimated with a few strokes of a bulldozer. One Notos Group LLC ad highlights tires on their tentatively contracted development site as indication our land is trashed, wasted and in need of huge investment to make Wareham something worthwhile. You should then see the overhead drone view traveling across hundreds of acres of living bio-systems developed through time into an interconnected whole. With uprooting, clear cutting of trees, bulldozing animals' homes and food, forcing them to flee and die, we also destroy the great wealth of life diversity, air and water rejuvenation we humans get from the forests, the ponds, the rivers and streams. It is wealth squandered everywhere we look. It is gone forever and for what?