North Carolina: Asheville museum called “Health Adventure” destroys last urban woodland
A neighborhood friend called to alert me around noon, but I hesitated.
I can barely stand to witness such slaughter. Just the sound of the
chain saws alone causes me to cringe. When I finally took the walk
over to the site in Montford, most of the destruction was complete.
Today is crisp and sunny with a blue, blue sky.
The winter silhouette
of trees against the winter sky has always been one of the beautiful
gifts of my pedestrian lifestyle. Now, with so many more gone, each
walk I take along the old Drovers road there is less natural beauty
left It has become a place of slaughter. Slaughter done by an
Asheville musuem dedicated to “improve health awareness, promote
wellness lifestyles, and increase science literacy.” I wonder if they
will have a museum exhibit on the trees so wantonly savaged for their
new building? What will they say to the next generation of children
who have no access to neighborhood woodlands?
Will these children have
to settle for replicas in a sterile museum built on the roots of a
once living forest? With the quality of air in this community already
so terribly endangered, there is no justification for so many trees to
be taken down. By the time I arrived, the irate neighbors had left and
only a few folks were wandering by or slowing down in their cars to
witness the crime. And a crime it is. This notion that urban woodlands
can be taken down with such callous disregard for the needs of the
neighbors, the wildlife, the air quality, the future generations.
http://ashevilleontheground.blogspot.com/2009/01/tree-slaughter-asheville-health.html
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