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... is for walking. It is only a short fifteen-minute
walk in from the road but a journey from one world to another.
Just around the bend is the deep quiet of the cathedral of
trees, the fading out of time and change, a gathering sense of
peace and serenity, which, as Thoreau wrote, is beyond price.
From the crest of the last pine-clad ridge you can see the
Point and the lake, may even catch a glimpse of the ghostly
procession of the past, of the Indian families, the explorers
and voyageurs, the miners, loggers, and settlers who once
passed by the Point on the old wilderness trail up the lake.
It is another world down there.
Would you really wish to feel the spell of Listening
Point, best to leave your car by the road and walk in.
But at the time Sig agonized over the brutal process of
building a road through the woods to the Point. He described
it in his chapter entitled "The Breaking." Watching
the bulldozer going to work, he wrote,
More boulders were moved out of the trail, and
the din of screeching steel, the crash of stone against stone
deafened all the sounds of the forest. More trees went down,
and it ground them into the duff . . . I was appalled at what
I had done.
Roads and logging bothered him. But he found a healing
thought in his later chapter on "Logging Roads."
There he reminded himself that time heals, that "logging
roads would someday be charming runways through the woods"
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Published by
The Listening Point Foundation, Inc.
13567 N. Uhrenholdt Dr.
Hayward, WI 54843
Phone: 715-634-2305 |
Editor: Robert K. Olson
Production Assistant: Debra Kurtzweil
Web Version: David Backes |
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
| Chair: |
Robert K. Olson |
| Vice Chair: |
Charles Wick |
| Secretary: |
Yvonne Olson |
| Treasurer: |
Randall J. Pachal |
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David Peterson |
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Milt Stenlund |
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Sigurd T. Olson |
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David Backes |
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Dr. Kenneth M. Bro |
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Mike Link |
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| ADVISORY BOARD |
| Paul Anderson |
Bloomington, MN |
| Ray Christensen |
Bloomington, MN |
| David Jensch |
Duluth, MN |
| Eileen Long |
Prescott, WI |
| Malcolm McLean |
St. Paul, MN |
| Jean Packard |
Fairfax, VA |
| Mark Peterson |
Fort Collins, CO |
| Clayton Russell |
Ashland, WI |
| R. J. Timer Swan II |
Aurora, IL |
| Robert Treuer |
Bemidji, MN |
| Martin & Esther Kellogg |
St. Paul, MN |
| Vance G. Martin |
Ojai, CA |
| Steve Waddell |
Bellbrook, OH |
| Dave Zentner |
Duluth, MN |
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| INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF SENIOR ADVISORS |
| Dr. Anne LaBastille, author, ecologist, Westport, NY |
| Senator Gaylord Nelson, Counselor, The Wilderness
Society, Washington, D.C. |
| Dr. Ian Player, Founder/President, The Wilderness
Foundation, Durban, Republic of South Africa |
| Ted Swem, President Emeritus, The Wilderness Society,
Evergreen, CO |
| Franco Zunino, Founder/Director General, Associazione
Italiana Wilderness, Murialdo (SV), Italy |
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The Listening Point Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit
organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code.
Warmest thanks to all contributors.
Materials in the newsletter may be reproduced with
attribution to the author, the newsletter, and the Foundation.
The editor welcomes letters, comments and suggestions from
readers. |
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