TIMES RECORD • August 16, 2021
Driving by the [former] Naval Air base, I was once again confronted with the ongoing deforestation across Bath Road. Come on Brunswick, does your redevelopment have to look so utterly blighted, like a really bad haircut that will never recover? Also, there was a truck parked with a load of balled and burlap trees waiting to be planted! To destroy an entire mature forest ecosystem, just to plant some spindly “ornamental” replacements which will, most likely, decline and/or die just like the rest of the Cook’s Corner mall parking lot trees. Who doesn’t, by now, understand the link between forests, ecosystems, species’ survival, clean air, and climate change? Will we humans ever really get a clue? ~ Sandy Maggied, Georgetown