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Tree murderers!
Wow, am I P***ed. Frothing at the mouth and ranting as I type this.
Drove over to see how well the ice is melting off my favorite home waters fishing hole today (not very well -- still lots of ice in the shade). Somebody has cut down a live, green, 30 inch diameter blue spruce tree to fall across the river as a 'bridge' to cross over. I know it was for a bridge since they also shagged the limbs off the top for easier walking.
Ever heard of waders, you @#$^&^#$s? So I know it was not fisherfolk. It's high school and college graduation kegger party season here now, along with ATV, jeep and motorcycle season (and, unfortunately, 'mud-bogging' season).
Had I caught them in the act, I'd probably be in jail for what I would've done to them on the spur of the moment, in the middle of the national forest a half mile from the road. Tho I sure wish I'd caught some license plates....the USFS has a 'book of damages' for what to fine people depending on what they destroy in the forest.
Ironically -- they had NO idea how to use a chainsaw -- they felled it without notching! Incredibly dangerous and stupid, and they are darn lucky they got it pushed over the river (must've taken 3-4 dummys pushing while one person sawed) instead of falling on them and their camp.
The trash they left is bad enough, but killing a live, 300 year old tree to make a foot bridge in our National Forest???
Alas, no grocery store receipts or such with their names on it in the trash -- I looked carefully! USFS busted some kids for starting a forest fire here a couple years back from a soggy Safeway receipt.
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent here.
Grrrrrrrrr.....
DANBOB
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I'm sorry,,, have seen that crap increasing each year. No fix that I know of. Unless you can catch them. Likely some judge would just warn them anyway, that's the sad part.
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And by the way,,, thanks for posting it.
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Sadly, respect just isn't being taught anymore, whether it be for individuals or Mother Nature. Makes me sick. Too bad the tree didn't fall on the camp and the a**h*l*s.
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That's a shame. I can appreciate your frustration, I got bummed when kids ran a cable across a stream 10' high. Naturally I popped a fly off on it- lucklily I didn't trash the flyline. Maybe mother nature will get her licks in when one of the drunks slips in...how deep and cold is it there?
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"Knowledge is knowing, wisdom is understanding"
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I know EXACTLY how you feel, Dan. I'm a card-carrying tree-hugger myself. Colorado is not known for its plentiful rainfall and fast growing trees. Fourteen rain-year inches in a desert in any book.
Do you recall that part-time fire-fighting woman that started that fire couple years ago and burned all those acres? If I was the judge, she wouldn't be in jail. She'd be spending another 6 hours a day, after her normal job, with couple hundred spruce and pine seedlings replanting the forests. (That, my friend, is justice. Not sitting in a jail, watching TV and reading books.)
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Dude said "respect just isn't being taught anymore". I can't agree. Most of our youth are learning about respect and respecting nature. There are always enough jerks to go around like the ones danbob is referring to. Lets not condemn everyone for the outrageous acts of a few.
DB- That is enough to pi** off anyone. Sorry you had to see it.
jed
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We have had same kinda problems here in Arkansas especially with off road vehicles. My dad is a wildlife officer and he has been setting up on closed roads backed off about 50 yards past the carbonite closed road signs and writing a ton of tickets for riding on closed roads. He has made a believer out of a lot of folks on closed road signs. The 4x4 and off road explosion is something I dont have a problem with as long as they stay on roads and paths designed for their travel.
[This message has been edited by parrotheadcrb (edited 27 April 2006).]
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The behavior is just unacceptable. I don't believe respect or responsibility is being taught - or if it is not properly. If I see or hear "it's not my fault" as an excuse for bad behavior or illegal stuff I'll scream.
The threat of 'telling your parents' doesn't work because too many the parents don't care either.
There is a degratation of our society which is just wrong. I have no idea of how to fix it.
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LadyFisher, Publisher of
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Jed, I respect your opinion, however, it used to be rare to witness a kid being a total jackass a few years when out in public, now it's rare when one says "yes ma'am", or "no, thank you", or "please", or "excuse me", or ".......
I see 'em all the time, as well as adults, throwing crap out their car windows or dropping wrappers on the ground as they walk somewhere. I just think it's a minority now, instead of the majority that show any type of respect towards anything or anybody.