Timmmm—-berrrr: The unease of logging above one’s head
published 6:02am Saturday Sep 19, 2009
Pointing to big rocks that have tumbled onto his property, Maupin fears the mountain could slide.PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
With rocks already starting to slide down terrain so steep it’s easier to climb than walk, a man who survived mountain-ripping Hurricane Camille 40 years ago now worries that a neighbor’s logging project could do what Camille couldn’t: bring the surface of Dudley Mountain crashing down through his home.
“When I see this,” he says gesturing to the logged property above him, “I get irked.”
Maupin says he’s worried— especially with hurricane season here— that a severe rain could cause cause the felled forest above him to liquefy, as happened in Nelson County during the 1969 mega-storm that killed 126 people.
And Maupin’s further irked at what he calls a “lackadasical” attitude by the county and the forestry department in enforcing laws about logging and land clearing, and he says that (more)


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