Adjacent to Buckland State Forest, Buckland, Massachusetts (US) is Flagg Mountain recently acquired by the State. The species' forests are vey similar. All Commonwealth lands needs total protection from the extraction of resources.

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The natural recovery of a species' forest begins.

Flagg Mountain ghost subdivision in Conway, Massachusetts (US) is now owned by State Fish an Game. The developer put a lot of effort into creating very hard-packed gravel roads into Flagg Mountain. What you see here is not a lawn. It is a road now gone wild. Fortunately for the mountain no houses were built and his dream of a 25-house subdivision was not fulfilled. The developer sold and he now lives in Florida, but the scarred natural landscape remains. State Fish an Game told me that the natural landscape would be allowed to return with only very minor habitat maintenance. No vehicles can access this road. Good!

Abandoned hard gravel roadbed 

Dick Stafursky, originator of the Species List Forest, Conway, MA (US)