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Article: CONSERVATIONISTS FEAR N.H. WOODS COULD SLIP INTO DEVELOPERS' GRASP
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1988
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CONCORD, N.H. - A 68,000-acre tract of New Hampshire
woodlands may be sold before conservationists and politicians can
figure out a way to preserve it from development, US Rep. Judd
Gregg (R-N.H.) said last week.
But Gregg, joined by Sen. Gordon J. Humphrey (R-N.H.) and
other conservationists, argued that preservation plans should be
pursued because vast tracts of timberland in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont may come up for sale in the next decade.
Perry R. Hagenstein, a Wayland, Mass., forestry consultant,
said as much as 10 million acres, or 40 percent of the forest area
of New Hampshire and Vermont and 70 percent of Maine's, may come on
the market by the year 2000.
"If ...