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...June, 1972, I wrote Calvin W. Stillman, a son of the donor and a professor at Rutgers University, College of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Department of Environmental Resources, to request his views on the Project so that they would be available for the committee President Bok had appointed. Because the committee had not been asked to make a recommendation whether Harvard should sell the whole Forest, I asked Professor Stillman only about the Project. His reply, dated June 21, 1972, reads in relevant part, as follows...
...take a position on the Project. Moreover, let me emphasize that there is no recommendation now under consideration to sell the whole or part of the Forest. But I do think it important that The Crimson and the community have access to more information concerning the views of the Stillman family. Daniel Steiner '54 General Counsel to the University...
...property in question is a large tract of forest land bequeathed to the University by Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death in 1949. Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, would need to purchase 240 acres of that land to build a controversial pumped storage power plant which has been tied up in litigation for the past ten years...
...recommendation irked environmentalists and many of Stillman's descendents, who urged rejection of the committee recommendations...
This recommendation has been widely criticized by several environmental groups, including Scenic Hudson Preservation Converence, Harvard Ecology Action and the Law School's Environmental Law Society. The family of Ernest G. Stillman '08, who gave the forest to the University, also has expressed its opposition to the recommendation...