Whats the excuse for not building the road AROUND the tree?! That really is a shame.
I was in a greenies yard once and turned them to DEC for having a leaky oil tank.
As you can see I don't get mad, I get even.
That tree or should I say thoes 2 trees (there are 2 of them on that truck) were not the ones the greenie's cut down. They had the 400 year trees mowed down chopped up on the spot and left in the forest for there road to get to the top of a hill to ski.
it is the old "do as I say not do as I do syn drum".
or "not in my back yard"
Juneau is at least for the time been still the capitol of the largest park in the world. ALASKA and ware to better control the park but from the capitol. and who controls most parks? tree huggers, anti mining people, anti do anything unless I say you can people. They still drive cars that use oil, drive on asphalt roads, ride bikes on asphalt bike paths, use things made of plastic, Talk on plastic cell phones, use plastic in there computers, etc. (70% of most things we have today have some connection to the oil industries.
I have a long list of people here that are againist mining, logging, building a road out of Juneau etc. that when they call me to do work for them it costs at least double, because I make sure I jump through there hoops, I even put up silt fence for projects less then 200 sq ft when working in there yard. I was in a greenies yard once and turned them to DEC for having a leaky oil tank.
As you can see I don't get mad, I get even.
PSD - I'm not some "greenie" but to cut down a 400yr old tree just to put in a road is insane. I don't care who you are.
If the tree is in the way it's in the way, and needs to come down. Where not talking jersy here were talking alaska, a part of alaska that you cant even drive too. So some 400 year old tree that is sitting next to maybe a 500 year old tree or (2) 200 year old ones, whats the problem. Also whats the life expectancy of a sitka spruce?PSD - I'm not some "greenie" but to cut down a 400yr old tree just to put in a road is insane. I don't care who you are. There are hardly ANY nice wooded parks left here in NJ. Houses are only 10' apart in some areas or less. Luckily the state just made the northwest of our state farmland and you need atleast 5 acres to build a house.
Actually it is in massachussetts. It is on mt wachuset in the state park next to ski area. It is old growth forest, but not old old as in it was harvested in 1700s then grew back and hasn't been cut since.And by the way, PSDF 350, where is there old growth left in New Hampshire. I can't believe it--how did it escape the axes and chain saws all these years. And is it protected now?
Those are great pictures, and one heck of a tree.
I can't believe the greenies let them cut down a 400 year old tree. I think the reason that there is only one logging compnay in Juneau is that they are so busy knocking down the old growth trees in British Columbia that there is no need to tangle with the regulations in Alaska. Virtually no protection for old growth forests in BC, so might as well harvest those forests first. It's the "low hanging fruit" theory.