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Saving Stone Walls |
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Saving Stone Walls The Society has addressed this issue in the past when advertisements began to appear in the Bargain Buyer and post cards in mailboxes, asking property owners to sell their old stone walls. We wrote letters to the Conservation Commission and the Town Council with little result except agreement with our concerns. No official action was taken. In the spring, FPS was invited to join the Foster Conservation Commission in a regional program hosted by the Scituate Conservation Commission. University of CT Professor of geology, Robert Thorson, spoke about the loss of New England stone walls and signed his book Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls. In the August 5, 2007, Providence Journal, Boston Globe and other New England newspapers, an article entitled "N.E.'s stout stone walls no match for thieves" appeared. We have placed it on our website to emphasize the importance of this issue. We have been researching information to learn how other communities are attempting to save their endangered walls. The following links are useful: "Stone Wall protection-Boon or Bust"
Ideas from England: Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
We invite you to join a conversation about this issue in our new web-log,
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