Commercial logging in Northampton? How did THIS happen?
In January, 2013, Mayor David Narkewicz decided to allow publicly subsidized, money losing, aggressive commercial logging of Northampton’s most precious and important public water supply protection forests.
Northampton is supposed to be “Green, progressive and climate concerned,” but most residents don’t even know this is happening. Those who have reached out to Mayor Narkewicz have been rebuffed or ignored.
The only ones benefiting from the commercial logging of Northampton’s public water supply protection forests are a few foresters and loggers. The financial, ecological, and potential public health costs of a degraded watershed will mostly be borne by Northampton’s 30,000 residents.
We need to speak out loudly and clearly: NO commercial logging! For more information, go to http://www.maforests.org/MAYOR-NARKEWICZ.pdf
