I grew up and still currently live immediately next to the line of deforestation near The Rookery golf course. This recent event is deeply personal to me. This speaks volumes for the future of Sussex County. All my childhood memories were playing in that forest with friends and siblings. Many native Delawareans have a similar story. That abandoned car was the first car I ever "drove." The time sure flew by rather quick.
The birds don't chirp as much lately, and now the deer don’t have as much space to graze. My dog is buried on the property line. They could pave over her or put a post hole through her tombstone, and I couldn’t stop them. Some may consider flattening a forest to put up another cookie-cutter neighborhood progress, but I hold a much different opinion. Delawareans don’t want this, at least true natives don’t. There’s a place for manufactured soulless mega-neighborhoods, and two miles from a state wildlife refuge is not one of them.
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