Save The Cooper Land in Roxbury Vermont

Hello Everyone! I am a co owner on 17.2 acres in Roxbury, Vermont. I purchased this land with money from the sale of my family home in Florida. I thought I had a home for life and that my family would keep this land through the generations, growing fruit and vegetables and training dogs and ponies. We gave pony rides in the Northfield area for many years. I loss use of this land in 2000 and have struggled to get it back or even use of it ever since. I have been kept off through fear of retaliation and intimidation from the other co owner.

In the time I have not been on the land, or even allowed to walk the land with my family or friends, I have learned a lot. I have over 200 blueberry plants which I have grown to be transplanted up there, and have learned how to train PTSD service dogs. I love fruit, and dogs and have complex PTSD from abuse. The land in Roxbury, Vermont could feed many persons and it could provide a place where owner - trainers of service dogs in the Central Vermont area could come up and work their dogs in a fenced in secure area. I want to apply my knowledge gained and my land to help others in the Central Vermont area. I also want to help my family and assure that an illegal junking business being run on the land is shut down and cleaned up and other illegal activities and parties end. I believe in my heart that what has been going on up on my land has not benefited the community at all.

It takes money to even get this started, I have tried to find help and will write more about that in the coming days. Let's just say for now, that a disabled 57 year old woman on a very low income, had little help getting any help what so ever. even from persons of authority who are mandated under law to protect the interest of vulnerable adults in Vermont... It was too nice of a day today to get into all of that now, but I have a lot to say about the whole situation.


I have a PTSD mobility dog that is my working partner. He is a rare breed, a breed on the edge of extinction, an American Dingo. We have trained and worked together now for over two years. He roams the woods and fields with me while I take nature photos and videos. I like macro-photos the best. Doggie changed my world for the better, gave me reason to get up in the morning and really LIVE every day to the best of my ability, rather than giving up. We hope to raise and train these Dingoes for service dogs and in a responsible way to help ensure the American Dingo does not fall into extinction. The true working Native dog and my hero Doggie Beowulf Cooper is!