From Esteemed Natural Science Professor at Lesley University with Students
Distributed by Friends of Alewife Reservation

We saw an eastern garter snake escaping the cut forest toward Little Pond today. They have cut some of the venerable elders, ones we measured and hugged. We saw big deer tracks on the cut road leaving the forest, and a Belmont police officer told my lorax student who teaches me so much that after having seen deer only in OUR forest, he has seen two dead buck roadkills recently. And another police officer told OUR MOTHER LORAX BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ELLEN MASS that she is living in Arlington nearby but moving because of flooding. My STUDENT TEACHER WHO TEACHES ME SO MUCH GINA was stung by ground nesting bees before she was arrested for being a beautiful righteous human being. Ben, Ellen, Gina, Madeline... EACH AND ALL who put your hands behind your back for the forest, I am humbled. See my facebook share. we have his cell phone number. Call the Onceler and let him know what you feel if you feel comfortable doing so. Kathy you are another saint for calling him. The trees truly speak to you. You know how their roots move you. You move me as they move us.

The unravelling is happening before our eyes. Bees, deer, snakes, birds, and humans exodus. My heart goes out to US. All of you. ALL OF YOU. Lets converge Monday to mourn, keep hope burning, and make our presence known. Let's tell those who proclaim support to show it by standing with us, with their selectmen congressmen suits blessed by the forest soil, lest they be legacied as hypocrites who betrayed their kin.

My Indigenous daughter in law, here only a week with my grand daughter is appalled by the desctruction of our beloved silver maple forest. She comes from a land with the most pristine, ancient, expansive, and wild rain forest left on EARTH where the government is selling their trees to China and India and others for pennies and allows the rape of rivers and forest for gold, as the days of the Conquistadors. I want to walk with a noose around my neck.

David Morimoto
Division Director
Natural Science and Mathematics
Lesley University
617.349.8226
morimoto@lesley.edu