Ugly in Alton

[ApS]

Originally Posted by tis

lawn psycho. I don't think that's very nice to post someone's house and say it or the yard is ugly. I would feel terrible is someone posted my house and said it was ugly. Think how you would feel. After reading your posts of late, I think you have something against people who live on the lake. Do you? And if so why?

1) Both Alton houses in the photograph are beyond the reach of DES and are probably "perfectly legal": The trend is troubling, however, as both structures bring the problems of "Suburban Sprawl" to our area. (With added leachates, traffic snarls, water quality crashes and where Pigeons replace songbirds).

2) It's not just one house—it's the process of building and damaging our environment. (Also known as "Gentrification").

And it's not just Alton—a new house went up on Rattlesnake Island after I'd taken this photograph. (One of two scarified lots there). The new lot remains the same—and last year, the new house was for sale.



3) I call waterfront homes the "First Tier" of Lake Winnipesaukee's homes. Those behind—and beyond control of DES—I call "the Second Tier".

Look to Thomas Point as an example:

An approved "replacement" boathouse blocks the "Broads" view of several abutters. (Though I'm located a mile away, that boathouse somewhat impinges even my view of The Broads!)

Behind the abutters, a second tier of homes is appearing—while whole groves of White Pines were flattened. The new houses will have a better view of the lake—than if they were lakefront!

(Isn't anybody in charge in Tuftonboro?)

4) It's not just Alton.

Wolfeboro Town Hall has a new pamphlet that bemoans the green lawns that are replacing natural forest. (But the pamphlet mostly decries the doubling of year-round Canada Geese flocks which are browsing and propagating on Wolfeboro's ultra-green lakeside lawns).

Wolfeboro's message? String wires to block "lawn access" to Canada Geese.

5) Lake Psycho has been consistent in decrying the poor environmental management of Winnipesaukee's hillside shorelines: even recent "second-growth" forest is being replaced by the Climax Forest of new hardwoods.

Check out the light-green Spring growth [of hardwoods] shown in the attached photograph:

Pictured is a segment of a mile-long roadway cut through acres of White Pines. This allows access for bulldozers and front-end loaders to access that shore's "Second Tier" of new homesites and to scarify those lots into moonscapes.

A Climax Forest is the "end-game" for forests. In the absence of forest fire, evergreens will not recover their former territory.

And it's the evergreens that have been protecting Winnipesaukee's water quality.