Comments on: Foster Creek Conservation Easement, North Mills River

By: Jeff Clark, Meanderthals

Jeff Clark, Meanderthals — Sun, 17 May 2015 23:01:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Perhaps you should go back and visit the site now. It's gone forever.

By: Jeff Clark, Meanderthals

Jeff Clark, Meanderthals — Sun, 17 May 2015 22:58:00 +0000

In reply to Sharon Kennett Heim. Hi Sharon. Yep, it's a sad story. The first wave of logging took out about half the trail. This 2nd go round got the rest. So much beauty gone.

By: Sharon Kennett Heim

Sharon Kennett Heim — Sun, 17 May 2015 21:12:00 +0000

Hi Jeff, My husband and I went to Foster Creek this morning. We hiked the trail last year on my birthday in May and saw hundreds of Lady slippers in bloom. I had never seen anything so magical in my life. Then the last time we hiked the trail was this past Fall of 2014. We had heard about the planned logging and hoped that there would be a buffer between the logging and the trail, but to our dismay, the trail has been completely destroyed. (Obliterated is a more accurate description.) The bulldozers scraped all the way through the trail and annihilated every living plant. There are only a few very short stretches where some ferns have appeared this Spring, but the trail as we all knew it does not exist any more. We saw only one Lady Slipper that had escaped the destruction. It will take 75 years for this magical place to restore itself…we’ll not be able to enjoy this trail again in our lifetimes.
Here are some pictures that I took this morning.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:52:00 +0000

I asked people who work for that NF, you are wrong and spreading misinformation. The trail won’t be gone and the paint is marking trees to be removed for road widening. You are made it seem to me like they are going to be logging in the wetland.