Aerial of the Farm and Forest area of Washington taken 5/10/2001 by Vince Mecca. For a legend, click on the photo (use your 'BACK' button to return).
Aerial of the Farm and Forest area of Washington taken 5/10/2001 by Vince Mecca. For a legend, click on the photo (use your 'BACK' button to return).
The view across the Vanner Farm, a view that is spectacular enough to be included in a tour guide, Maine's Most Scenic Roads by John Gibson (Down East Books) and recognized as "outstanding" by the Washington Comprehensive Plan. Gibson describes the area as "countryside of exceptional beauty."
In a letter to the Washington Planning Board, John Gibson writes:
"Maine communities are, in my opinion, at a crossroads, at which they must decide whether they will plan rationally for appropriate economic development in the future or merely continue to allow those kinds of exploitive development that have done so much lasting damage to rural localities in the past. I believe Maine communities must become proactive in safeguarding their futures as decent, desireable places to live."
There are a number of farms in the immediate area that will be disrupted. Horses, for example, will become agitated with the constant blasting, crushing and digging.
