Re: [SG] trees

In a message dated 2/22/99 9:27:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, BILLS@HSC.EDU
writes:

<< In northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, "camp" usually means a cabin
 or shack in the woods used as a summer retreat.  It may be illegal if the
 property is NFS or PS (there is little BLM land in the east), but is it
 immoral?  What would be the fate of those few seedlings anyway?  Most of
 the tens of thousands of tree seedlings in each acre of established forests
 are doomed to dwindle away or to be eaten by deer or rabbits. >>

I want to thank Bill Shear for expressing a point of view I share.

I have watched road scrapers pile up seedlings into compost, Loggers working
in the area with one boot wipe out hundreds of seedlings with each step.
Eschewing a lengthy piece on the fate of most seedlings,  Bill's view is the
practical one so often missing on the enviromental scene.   In the NYS
Adirondacks, mentioned in the original post, vast tracts of land are managed
by a system unknown to the rest of the world.  An agency established by NYS
governs the fate of the area which includes private lands located within the
area.  The private lands are regulated by this agency unlike other private
land in any other part of the country.

You could Margaret "camp" in NYS and place your tent on tons of seedlings.  We
have in NYS as many environmentalists as anywhere else.  You could for
instance, on seedlings, be on my acreage and I could give you permission to
collect all the seedlings you wished.  In a jagged line across my property you
could be on agency land w/o knowing it.  I would not be pleased to have a
problem for a inch or so.

Betty Barrows and myself, both signing on with NYS addresses plainly shown,
have or have had summer residences in this area.   I think not to lecture is
the better way to go on listserves.  Ms. Barrows, another writer of experience
added to our already illustrious group, is a Master Gardener, garden writer,
locally known artist and longtime friend to horticulture.  You cannot know
these things on listserves so going in gently is advised.

Claire Peplowski
Easr Nassau, NY
z4
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