kid chopping down live trees?
I hope an adult is not stupid enough to cut live lodgepole pine. I just came home from camping in the NF in a dispersed camping area in the forest. As I took a walk one morning maybe a 100 yds. fro...
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Duke-44 wrote:steveh27 wrote:
Just this April I was in the Black Hills & found a number of recent trees cut down &into short lengths. When I left I spoke to a nearby landowner & he said they were trees infested with the pine beetle & had been cut to prevent them from spreading.
There are plenty of dead, pine beetle killed trees right next to these hacked to death, green needled trees. A live tree is much easier to chop than a dried dead tree.
I'm sticking with a kid, with a stupid parent as the culprit.
The trees I saw cut WERE live green trees. Once they turn brown the beetles have already left and they don't bother cutting them down. So it is the live green infested trees that are cut down and in short lengths to prevent the beetles from maturing and spreading. This is happening in many areas.
