The Washington Post recently had an article concerning the desperate need for wildscapes, not parks, wildscapes ,undeveloped land to preserve our ecology and life on earth.
Schedler should remain undeveloped.
Let it remain undeveloped, please God, a lodestar for other towns about the need for preserving life on earth by being good stewards of the land.
By the way, some blister bellied parent talked about baseball and other sports becoming more competitive and the need for more playing space.
Well, there have been a plethora of articles on kids’ sports in the major newspapers including our one and only NYTimes. They all agree that too much practice leads to permanent bodily injuries in young bodies that are still developing. Yes, coach , let them work hard, but not harder. You coach, don’t give a flying fuck if your young charges collapse in college sports due to their strained bodies or in high school, or even permanently inured in high school. All coaches and gym teachers teaching competitive sports should be required to work for FREE, NO Pay
. work for the good of the young kids playing, not for your reputations acquired by ruining young lives.
The preposterous and blatantly loaded term “wildscape” has been bandied about Ridgewood, and almost precisely nowhere else, for the better part of three decades at least. For example, when renovation of the bridge across the HoHoKus Brook and located on East Glen Avenue between Maple Avenue and the vicinity of the nearby firehouse was proposed and was being publicly discussed in the early 1990’s, it was regularly employed as a cudgel to dissuade the Village Council from acting. The idea was that the brook bed and bank and associated vegetation, having arrived at its present form ostensibly solely as a result of eons of exposure to natural (non-human) forces and processes, should be regarded as sacrosanct, and therefore protected against any change by the ultimate pest of the earth, man.
Of course this is the ultimate in Gaia worship. To posit the term “wildscape” and attempt to build arguments using that gauzy concept as a foundation is blithely to denigrate biblically-based judeo-christian teachings that unequivocably place man at the helm of our ship of state here on earth, thus giving us the specific authority to build bridges (and ballfields). Nevertheless our local cadre of sixties retreads and Communist sympathizers and self-hating humans disguised as environmentalists wearing their soothing cloaks of green have become accustomed to the free hand they’ve been given to initiate and influence local conversations regarding undeveloped tracts of land, right up until the point at which elected officials are obliged to apply actual adult logic and reason for the benefit of the Village as a whole.
Why does every acre need to become a field?
When do we have enough?
Why are the few sports given so much?
Turn it over to Project Impact or an environmental club. Lets see what they can do with the land.
Parents pf non sports players – time to speak up.
Impeach The Mod Squad !
Seriously, aren’t there adult and youth groups that would like to keep this property undeveloped?
Environmental science clubs
Nature clubs
Project Impact
Biodiversity clubs
Why do sports grab all the open space. Most residents do not play baseball and there are plenty of other artificial turf fields. Leave the new parcel to nature.
I agree 2:15 – 2:17! Time to unite. 09/30/15, 7:30PM, Village Council Public Work Session. Spread the word. Tell a friend. Bring a neighbor.
No rain; look to thyself.
Time to make nature lovers a special interest group. It is not all about sports.
The silent majority needs to be counted.
If it’s turf . . . how will we water it?