![]() On May 20, the State and Cog signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering the Lizzie Project. In March, the Cog Railway, which has operated since 1869, proposed a new hotel development at 5,800-feet in elevation, a short walk from the summit. The State plans to build a new system with a 7,500 gallon a day capacity because it anticipates-and supports-increased visitor levels that will exacerbate congestion. The summit’s overtaxed waste water treatment plant, with a capacity of 5,000 gallons a day, is out of compliance with its permit. ![]() There are as many as 5,000 visitors on peak summer days. The Division of Parks and Recreation estimates that close to half a million visitors ride, drive, or hike to the summit annually. ![]() The State has no idea of how many visitors the summit can handle before overcrowding inflicts serious ecological and climatological damage to the fragile alpine tundra and its flora and fauna. Washington is a paved-over, debris-littered, congested disgrace. Washington State Park on the summit of Mt. One Abenaki name for this wild, dangerous peak was Maji Neowaska, where a demon, or bad spirit, was supposed to dwell on the highest peak. He lives in Stratford, N.H.įrom time immemorial, the Abenaki believed it a sacrilege to climb New England’s highest mountain. ![]() His grandmother, Natalie Bourne, would strenuously object to the unauthorized commercialization of the Bourne name. He also wrote “You Had a Job for Life” (2018), an oral history of the Groveton paper mill. Jamie Sayen is author of the forthcoming “Children of the Northern Forest” (Yale University Press, 2023) about the ecology and land-use history of the largely undeveloped Acadian forests of northern New England. Coal burning Cog approaching the Lizzie Bourne Memorial. ![]()
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