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The attached is some promising news about proposed wilderness proection in Vermont. It also gives some perspective about how fortunate we are to have over 1 million acres of wilderness-designated country in the ADKs..
Vermont currently has just 58,000 acres protected as wilderness and the proposal (which probably won't be met in it's entirety) calls for another 78,000 acres.
My home state of Pa. has vast state and national forest land in the north-central part of the state totaling over 2.2 million acres (and over 4 million acres statewide), but just a tiny percentage is protected as wilderness.
I wish that alot of other eastern states would take the ADKs as a model for land protection, especially Maine where millions of acres could be permanently protected if there was the will to do it.......
Vermont currently has just 58,000 acres protected as wilderness and the proposal (which probably won't be met in it's entirety) calls for another 78,000 acres.
My home state of Pa. has vast state and national forest land in the north-central part of the state totaling over 2.2 million acres (and over 4 million acres statewide), but just a tiny percentage is protected as wilderness.
I wish that alot of other eastern states would take the ADKs as a model for land protection, especially Maine where millions of acres could be permanently protected if there was the will to do it.......
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