To the editor:
I’ll bet you that the average person working the waterfront spends 800 percent of their time worrying about their business. That leaves very little time for discussion about the issue of their dwindling resources, and the battles required to reverse the trend. I read more and more about the issue of the loss of waterfront access, and now the issue is being atomized by saying “who’s working waterfront is it anyway?” I would like to receive a direct and continuing response to this letter by a representative of the Land Trust sector as to their recognition or contributions to this issue. I have long maintained that we should get on the same page as the Land Trust campaigners. They obviously have a lot to offer, as they continuously and successfully gobble up lots of land with enormous government blessing. I only wish I was as successful as they are, though I’m sure they must spend 800 percent of their time buying land. Let’s plug into this system. It seems to me that it would be easier to adapt their infrastructure than build a new one. It’s time for Land Trusts to contribute to the people who actually maintain and inhabit this coast. I look forward to the first advertisement from one of these organizations (which accept tax deductible contributions) that they are recognizing this issue.
Captain David Barrett
Islesboro