[act-ma] Saturday, May 14, 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER CASUAL TRAGIC HISTORY HIKE

[Tribal Scribal]

Trip meets 9:30 in the courtyard of the Great Falls Discovery Center, Ave.
A, Turners Falls, MA and continues onto the Rail Trail. *Please be aware*
that it will be close to 5 miles–with the return to Great Falls to be done
on your own. As noted, a bike or even a 2nd car-pool, relay-car can be left
near the walk’s end and return point. Bikes can be locked near Conte
Lab–also, relay cars could be parked in the public lot at the end of
G-Street, where “Migratory Way” continues along the canal heading the last
1/2 mile to Rock Dam.

*In a time when the very fabric of the Earth is rapidly fraying*, it would
be criminal of public officials to turn their back on the chance to revive
the key living artery of our ecosystem. The US Fish & Wildlife Service, MA
Dept. of Environmental Protection, MA Fisheries & Wildlife and NOAA’s
National Marine Fisheries must step up now. The ugly scale of this
antiquated scheme is to relicense the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage
Station to literally continue sucking away the life of the river for the
next half century–re-marketing its deadened flow as twice-produced,
net-loss megawatts to places as far away as New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Maryland.

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"Our planet's future climate is inextricably tied to the future of its
forests." * - Oct. 5, 2018 letter from 40 scientists to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change*

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall
never sit."    -  Greek Proverb

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