One last chance to stop clear-cutting Fearing Hill in Wareham for a misplaced solar array PROTECT WAREHAM!
Community Land & Water Coalition Protect, preserve and steward our land and water We recently turned out dozens of people for the September 14 Town of Wareham Planning Board public hearing on this very issue — but because of the huge response, the Board continued the hearing to September 28 and postponed its decision to give people more time to weigh in. This may be our last chance to convince the Planning Board to deny the permit and end this fiasco for good. RSVP for today's meeting Fearing Hill is an iconic natural land feature in Wareham next to the existing Fearing Hill Conservation Area of 114 acres and residential neighborhoods. The solar project will clearcut about 20 acres of prime forest on one of the highest points in Wareham that has documented ecological biodiversity and serves as a wildlife corridor and habitat. Historic and ancient ways trod by Indigenous people cross the hillside. The eastern side of the hill was preserved by the Town of Wareham and the Wareh...