I'm walking the dogs in my local park... And for the last few weeks, the local Council have been numbering, then felling trees where they can get away with leaving a space between without it looking bare.. Threse trees will not grow back for hundreds of years, they will not be replaced.. The highest number I have seen so far is 81, and looking at these trees, I can't even say that they are being felled because the branches are starting to get tangled with other trees... That's the reason the neanderthal workers tried to explain to me.. It's actually making me cry... And over-imagination or not, I can almost hear screams beneath the noise of saws... I think I'm okay with using stustainable forests, just about, but this is MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes it seems that some sick people get off on killing things and make up reasons to kill trees.
I'm pretty sure the wood wil be used for a purpose, but we have sustainable forests for that... We FOUGHT for them, so why starting eating away at one of the most accessible beauty spots alot of people will get to see?
Gosh, that upsets me so much. Heck, I was having a fit not long ago when a neighbor decided to chop a tree down that was in their yard. I kept pacing the house, looking out the window and just wanted to cry when I saw them sawing through it. It really bothered me. I hate seeing beautiful trees being cut down, breaks my heart.
Oh man, there is this lovely wood over the road from me that not many people know about. Most the trees are only about 20 years old, and were obviously planted to be chopped down, which although it sucks, is understandable. But what i didn't understand was that they chopped down about 10 of these huuuuge trees, really old ones. They weren't mouldy or anything so i think they just chopped them for the wood
man, ill never forget the day this big tree by our house got infested with japaneese beetles and my dad had to chop it down. i was like nine and i was so depressed. but if he didnt chop it down the beetles would have killed that tree anyways and moved on to another tree, or at least thats what this tree 'doctor' told him.
I don't have to tell you any of this, you already know the answers. Sometimes, moral support is helpful. Take names, take pictures, kick ass. Jump down your city councilman's throat. Be a pain in his butt. Demand dollar figures. Get your name in the paper. Or, you can always let it ride, sit back, take it easy. Do nothing and see what a difference you make. "In a democracy, people generally get the government they deserve." - Adlai Stevenson
Growing up i lived 5 minutes away from Sherwood forest. When i was 6 or 7 or so wed walk there and itd be beautiful...bluebirds and nuts and squirrels...the forest was really thick and ancient. Each summer we returned it seemed to be getting thinner, although i thought nothing of it... When i was 16 i returned to that patch of Sherwood forest. What was Sherwood forest. I sat in that empty field and cried. I didnt care who saw. I was surrounded by the stumps of those trees id played in each summer as a child. And what made it all worse was, i was also surrounded by DEAD SQUIRRELS and the nuts theyd used to lure them. For some to this day still unknown reason, theyd killed the squirrels, too -Maxi
That's the saddest thing I've read in such a long time There are lots of grey squirrels all over the area where I live, and I seriously don't want to find out when it's to late that their homes and food supply is being destroyed.. Are you saying the squirrels were killed, or that they died as a result of their habitats being taken away? Sherwood Forest is huge, I know that even though I was only a child when I went. But we need to protect the small forests as vehemently as we claim to protect the rainforests of South and Central America..
The NY\NJ Trail Conference just purchased 74 Acres of forest in New Jersey to add to a chain of State Parks & mountaintops. In November, The State of NY purchased 575 acres of Sterling Forest, NY. to add to the14,500 acres purchased in 1998. The NY\NJ Trail Conference was one of the groups active in pressing for the purchase. www.nynjtc.org Membership and support in a similar group will save trees. Do you have a similar orgainzation in your area ?
Trees keep us alive in many ways, however once we have facilities to do the job of trees ( converting carbon dioxide etc ) I doubt you're going to cry much, we do need forests, and I don't think all of our forests are going to go away any time soon, trees don't scream.
oh yay. we'll get to be this paved world run by machines. im pretty exicted.. i dont know about you. :applause: only not.
I think trees do scream, just some people can't hear it. The earth, just like the human body, is a living organism. It needs it's trees, just like we need our bodyparts. Sure, you can cut off human limbs and install artificial organs up to a point, but at what cost? The amount of life ENERGY that just one very old tree gives and recieves is truely amazing. And no one really knows what delicate balances might be disrupted by cutting them down... There are alot more energys out there than just the ones the human race happens to have discovered so far, and we know very little about them. An electrical field surrounds all life on the planet. It took a long time for someone to discover it and figure out how to photograph it. Up until then nobody even believed it existed. Perhaps someone will one day figure out a way to record the SOUND it makes. Perhaps trees really DO scream when they are cut. We just don't know how to hear it yet. My home town used to be full of century old sugar maples. It was one of the things that made that town special. Every spring all those trees were tapped and people boiled down their own maple syrup. The streets were cool in the summer and sometimes we'd just sit under one of them and marvel at it's size. There are still some of them left, but over the years many have been cut down and replaced with fast growing ornamentals. Lots of excuses were used for the cutting, but what is the excuse for replacing them with something that is not even close to the same thing? Just another quick fix. This is a town that used to have lovely brick streets and massive tree lined avenues. It was a BEAUTIFUL town. It had everything necessary to be an old-timey tourist attraction. Now it just looks like so many other towns with their Wendys and Micky-D's. Sometimes I think that those in charge just don't have much appreciation for the old and beautiful, and definately no future vision... Sometimes you can make a difference. There used to be a back-country road near where I grew up, that was lined with these same ancient maples. Like driving thru a long surreal tunnel. It was a historical stretch of road, an old stage coach route. The "town" decided it needed widening, and because it was entirely in the Amish country, and Amish as a rule don't get involved in local politics, they just politely started cutting without so much as a warning. Well, my dad and mom started a protest. Letters to the editor, letters to the highway dept. Nobody even knew what was going on until they read those letters in the paper. That got some more folks up in arms and before you knew it, they stopped cutting and papers were signed declaring those trees historical landmarks. Many years later after I had moved away they tried again, but again someone who CARED started another protest, and those trees are STILL standing. It's either fight or become a huge parking lot. And at least some of us would rather live in a world of beauty and charm. And here is a pic of some of those trees we worked so hard to save, taken last summer. Enjoy.
No, I don't think you are agreeing with them at all. I just find "that person" to be useless to address, and so I addressed you addressing them if that made any sense.
makes sense. its pointless to address someone who comes to a hippy forum to bash hippies. he just wants a rise. ,asia
Yeah it was tragic really It was just part of Sherwood forest. Im sure the touristy bits are still there. But this was our little visiting place for so many years. I learnt that some big American company bought it. Then they cut down all the trees and CLAIMED to be selling areas of Sherwood forest on ebay to bidders. But of course they took the photos before theyd chopped down the trees. Theyre now using the land for God knows what at the same time... Anyway, the squirrels. They were shot. I have absolutely no idea why. But aswell as dead squirrels there were nuts around, which had been used to lure them, and bullet cases. Weird huh? An expensive and needless killing...so who knows All i know is that experience has woken me up to the tragic deaths of trees all over the world, in their millions. Youre right, every tree needs protection. And we must replant
