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Charlie-I lived near Houston in the 1960's while at NASA. There was some controversey about the Bit Thicket area northeast of Houston that involved logging. As an act of defiance and pure evil someone cut down the oldest living oak tree in the area. Those kinds of people are still around and I suppose will always be. We can be on the side of good and hope that some day good will endure.
Charlie-I lived near Houston in the 1960's while at NASA. There was some controversey about the Bit Thicket area northeast of Houston that involved logging. As an act of defiance and pure evil someone cut down the oldest living oak tree in the area. Those kinds of people are still around and I suppose will always be. We can be on the side of good and hope that some day good will endure.
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Next thing you know we'll have people spiking trees marked for harvest to try and kill loggers.
Even on private land.
Even on private land.
At least the man was caught and charged.
All old trees should be protected, in my never humble opinion..
A small, swampy wooded lot was cleared in my area about a year ago. It was on a main thoroughfare, bordered on three sides by stores/plazas (how it survived as long as it did, I don't know).
I thought it was mostly small trees, 6-8" around, but when I asked the guys if I could poke around their tree piles they took me to one of the biggest maples I've seen in Florida.
Where I started cutting it was 38" across, and where I stopped cutting on it (12' later) was 48" across. I didn't really have storage room for 12' of tree that size (or 3 days to spend cutting and transporting the chunks), but I would be damned before I let that tree rot at the dump or get mulched.
A tree like that should never be allowed to be cut down. It's probably been here longer than we have, so build around it.
...and what's worse, a year later and no construction has taken place - they just turned a wooded lot into a swampy weed bed.
There's a slot limit on fish, why not trees?
All old trees should be protected, in my never humble opinion..
A small, swampy wooded lot was cleared in my area about a year ago. It was on a main thoroughfare, bordered on three sides by stores/plazas (how it survived as long as it did, I don't know).
I thought it was mostly small trees, 6-8" around, but when I asked the guys if I could poke around their tree piles they took me to one of the biggest maples I've seen in Florida.
Where I started cutting it was 38" across, and where I stopped cutting on it (12' later) was 48" across. I didn't really have storage room for 12' of tree that size (or 3 days to spend cutting and transporting the chunks), but I would be damned before I let that tree rot at the dump or get mulched.
A tree like that should never be allowed to be cut down. It's probably been here longer than we have, so build around it.
...and what's worse, a year later and no construction has taken place - they just turned a wooded lot into a swampy weed bed.
There's a slot limit on fish, why not trees?
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Your grove probably compensated for destruction of designated wetland in construction of the strip malls. http://maine.gov/dep/blwq/docstand/ip-wlcomp.htm More stringent state requirements may exist. The local regulators here forbade planting of willows around a wet yard because they might drain the swampy area.
I also drive through acres and acres of dead trees going to town. Cedars and tamaracks being overcome by bog conditions created when they built up a highway without allowing for natural flow. Not sure whether the owners of that land were compensated for that gaffe, or even if it was a gaffe.
I also drive through acres and acres of dead trees going to town. Cedars and tamaracks being overcome by bog conditions created when they built up a highway without allowing for natural flow. Not sure whether the owners of that land were compensated for that gaffe, or even if it was a gaffe.
Michael, re: your comment on spiking trees, it's already happening even had instances where one landowner threatened to spike his neighbor's trees if they were contemplating logging because it would open the area adjacent to his property up too much.