Check this poster on the trail: it is advertising our Marsh Petition. Many hikers are walking on the Seaton trail, and many more have discovered it during the pandemic. The parking lots at the Whitevale Community Park and the Green River trailheads are overflowing and many people park on the streets of Whitevale and on both sides of Highway 7. People need the outdoors, the exercise, the fresh air, the experience of spotting wildlife and seeing the change of seasons, now more than ever. These hikers do not know that the Whitevale Marsh and regenerating gravel pit are threatened by the future Seaton development. This area, on the east side of the trail, just north of Whitevale will be offered for sale to developers. Being the site of a former gravel pit, it has a unique topography with cliffs, ridges and valleys occupied by marshes and sand barrens. It has woodlots attracting a wide range of bird species and beautiful meadows, rich in milkweed plants, the preferred food of the...
