New Road into Deer Lake SP N of 30A

Looking at Deer Lake State Park north of Hwy 30A, west of the Nature Trail on Oct. 3, I was disturbed and anguished. They have cut a road right over the only example I have found of earthball growing with deer lichen.

Followed the road maybe 30 to 50 feet north into the forest, where it branches into a T parallel to 30A. One branch angles toward the lake, the other towards the Nature Path.

What is my topic? Is it that I joined Friends of DLSP to be in on such decisions and obviously Friends are not consulted on decisions or even notified as to status.

Is it the seeming stupidity of carving this woods up more? It is riddled with logging and other commercial roads that are very gradually returning to being native. How can they justify this destruction?

Is it how I love these little plants and I feel their utter helplessness and terror at being crushed, uprooted, murdered?

Or is it past experience beating me down, cynically remembering the thinly veiled distain greeting my pleas to save deer lichen. They say they have no choice. They say roads are more important than forest. They say they have to make the park accessible. They do not care. They don?t feel for the plants.

Or am I crying for myself because I know I won?t do what it takes to get what I want? I?ll sit at the computer and do artwork and won?t be the activist needed.