2,000 Acres Will Be Old Growth; 50 March

by Eesha Williams

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Pioneer Valley

In a victory for old growth forests, two land trusts on October 27 said they had saved 2,000 acres in the Pioneer Valley towns of Belchertown and Pelham. “The land will be stewarded as 'forever wild,' taking a passive management approach to the forest to encourage old growth conditions to develop,” the land trusts said at:

www.kestreltrust.org/2000-acres-permanently-conserved-with-trustees-10-25/

The USA is losing about 6,000 acres of farmland, forestland, wetlands and other open space to so-called “development” every day. Development includes vast parking lots, the Brattleboro Home Depot that has been vacant for 17 years, and multi-million dollar vacation houses around the Mount Snow ski resort near Brattleboro. Many of those houses are vacant 90 percent of the time, while people in Brattleboro sleep in tents outdoors in winter.

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In Amherst on October 28, about 50 people marched to demand reparations payments to the survivors of the Gaza genocide, a spokesperson for the march organizers told the Valley Post. The organizers have a web page at:

www.instagram.com/umass_sjp

The USA under Biden and Trump was the biggest funder of the genocide.

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