Description

This homeowner is razing the current charming home built in the 1920’s at 31 Winthrop Ave in West Gloucester. In this development is a plan to remove all the mature Eastern White Pine to put in a lawn. This is being developed directly abutting the salt marsh on a sloping grade.

We are very concerned about the many environmental impacts, most of all directly involving an endangered species. We in West Gloucester all know and love our nesting resident bald eagles. They are literally down the road from us and frequently hunt from this very tree that is on the chopping block from this homeowner building a new house.

There is several mature white pines on the property that are now flagged for removal. All these gorgeous white pines are in good health and the one on the marsh is favored by the bald eagles for hunting.

We are now in discussions with the Conservation Commission and attended a Zoom meeting addressing our concerns about destroying the habitat of an endangered species.

They are flagged as we speak and hope we don’t awake to the sounds of chainsaws destroying this direct habitat for our bald eagles.