Apr 30, 2013
A Wage/Working field report from "Saturday Afternoon Show" live at Wave Farm in Acra, NY, featuring our interviews with Bryan Hunter (Catskill Cycles owner), Mary Spring (forester), & George Pitluga (ski lift operator).
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A Wage/Working field report from "Saturday Afternoon Show" live at Wave Farm in Acra, NY, featuring our interviews with Bryan Hunter (Catskill Cycles owner), Mary Spring (forester), & George Pitluga (ski lift operator).
I ask myself just about everyday why I continue to try and do this. A lot of times I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall – trying to convince people that we do need to practice good forestry, yet economic realities don’t allow people to do that. If someone is trying to pay their property taxes and they need to come up with money, or heaven forbid they have some kind of emergency that they need cash, they are often times pushed into the wrong decision out of necessity. I could go out in the woods and be a commissioned forester and mark things and get a percentage of the sale and make a lot more money than I’m making right now. But my ethical responsibility is to do things the right way. I grew up in the Catskills and I've always enjoyed being out in the woods. I’ve had good influences and people that are very supportive of me. I have to try and make this my life’s mission rather than just a way to make money, because I’m certainly not in this for the money.
Mary Spring, Forester