Bill to protect state forestland axed in late-session maneuver

Once vast tracts of forestland are being cut up, a process called parcelization. Photo by Ellen Bartlett/VTDigger
In an unusual floor maneuver in the waning hours of the year’s legislative session, Sen. Robert “Bobby” Starr, D-Essex-Orleans, called for the removal of several portions of a bill he had written following months of testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee, which he chairs.
Starr’s move was aimed primarily at axing provisions in the bill to protect va