NYS DEC and the CT/NY Audubon Society Determined to Log Zoar Valley, but Citizens Say: Not So Fast
by: The Zoar Valley Coalition
Little more than ten years after the towering old growth forests in Zoar Valley, New York, were legislatively protected and dedicated to the State Nature & Historic Preserve Trust in 2007, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation began writing a logging plan for the remaining public forests in Zoar Valley, including clear cuts of 100+ year-old Eastern hardwood forests…