Environmentalist Buys Land to Save Oaks

A stand of white oaks that may be older than the state will be preserved after an environmental activist struck a deal to buy the rural property and save the trees from a lumber mill.

Between 50 and 100 oaks are on the land, which was a mineral springs resort during the 1800s. Foresters estimate the trees are between 200 and 400 years old.

"You can almost hear those trees talk," said John Noel, the activist and businessman who stepped in to save the property. "You can feel it, the history. When John Hancock, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were signing the Declaration of Independence, this forest was already growing." Full Story

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