tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post2879007154160263125..comments2023-09-23T06:20:06.687-04:00Comments on Pocahontas County Fare: Changing Landscape of Droop MountainRebecca Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06494730619850791609noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-46022631382475510202008-01-10T13:21:00.000-05:002008-01-10T13:21:00.000-05:00I used to visit northern NH every year--and much o...I used to visit northern NH every year--and much of it was hard wood forest (some "terminal" hemlock forest) --old relatives lamented the landscape.. they too, remembered when the now wooded fields were once pasture (and filled with dairy cattle) --The bottom land was still farmed (a bit) but Coos County (NH) has one of the shorted growing seasons of continental US, and subsistence farming is a thing of the past.<BR/><BR/>It is interesting how are 'views' of what is right and natural are effected by when we first encounter a landscape. <BR/><BR/>To me, flushing meadow park is a total UN-Natural landscape (I first visited the park when it was home to the 1963 world fair) --to F Scott Fitzgerald, it was the 'field of ashes' (in The Great Gadsby) now there are signs around the park advocating "forever natual" --they make me laugh! <BR/><BR/>the natural brackish marsh is long gone, buried under tons of coal ashes (from when this place was a dump for for NYC's coal ashes), then paved over (for the worlds fair!) and now, landscaped into paved paths, and meadows that are becoming scrub forests in places!<BR/><BR/>the slow natural movement of the water is now controlled by pumps--not the tides.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05396678842259578953noreply@blogger.com