Poachers
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JakeG
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It's unfortunate they're having issues like this. Hopefully they can put a stop to it.
I'll visit there when the boys are a little bigger.
I'll visit there when the boys are a little bigger.
paccity
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won't stop till the gene pool get's cleaned up.
How do they get them out? Or are they next to a road?
Cutting burls off of living trees is a bad deal and it looks like they're finally making an effort to get it stopped.
I'd like to see the Park issue salvage permits for the blowdowns, though. Lots of good wood going to waste there that could be turned into something useful. When we were kids we used to cut fence posts,rails, and grape stakes out of stuff that got busted up falling. We could make our school-clothes money and have a little left over.
I'd like to see the Park issue salvage permits for the blowdowns, though. Lots of good wood going to waste there that could be turned into something useful. When we were kids we used to cut fence posts,rails, and grape stakes out of stuff that got busted up falling. We could make our school-clothes money and have a little left over.
Perhaps they are levitated out of the woods?
Stealth drone helicopters. Black ones. Don't let the guys in Political know.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
The road through there was closed today, it has been intermittent lately. I stop at Cal-Barrel on the way home from my weekly trip to Eureka. Hot today, missed cooling off there.
I found a patch on our property where maple burls had been poached. Oddly, it was in a place completely inaccessible by road, so they must have approached by boat. From the condition of the scars on the trees, I estimate that the theft was about ten years ago.
OlympicYJ
ArboristSite Guru
Lots of Maple theives about ten years ago. I think they cleaned up all the figure maple in the county cause I haven't seen much activity. Damn tweakers. I think it might have tapered off with the increase in scrap prices.
Trx250r180
Saw polisher
according to the park rangers i talked to yesterday ,it is still a problem with the maple
SliverPicker
ArboristSite Guru
Lovely, lively downtown Orick.
Anyone here remember the "Mayor of Orick"?
Anyone here remember the "Mayor of Orick"?
SliverPicker
ArboristSite Guru
Salvage would be great, but all the downed stuff serves a purpose in the woods. Having a forest floor clean of downed wood is no bueno for the health of the remaining trees. Its more important in some forests than others.
Granted, some trees need to be left where they fall. Everybody that actually makes their living in the woods knows that. I'll bet you learned it at Humboldt State.
I'm talking about salvaging perfectly good timber, not raking and sweeping every crumb of wood off the ground. Leaving some trees on the ground is important but more important is that we not waste the resource to no good purpose.
M.D. Vaden
vadenphotography.com
They do salvage some of the blowdown. It's used to to make bridges and fences and rails in the redwood parks.
That's true and what they're doing is a good start. I think they could do more of it and still not have anything taken away from the tourist's "Redwood Experience".
The state parks are in a money crunch. Maybe selling blowdown salvage would be a good revenue source.
Some of our state parks are getting logged, but we still are told they are in a fiscal difficulty. The non-forest people cry that it is merely a timber grab.
The logging is to get rid of the root rot affected trees. They don't always show obvious symptoms, and so folks believe the "timber grab" accusation. I guess we must wait until the wind picks up and a few tents get smashed.
SliverPicker
ArboristSite Guru
Yeah. With the beetle problem here the rich second home owners are having their ground cut and then they want every stick (literally) removed so the aftermath looks like a county park. The result is dried out ground and NO regen at all. The remaining trees often die too. Idiots. So when you said "salvage" my feeble mind saw scorched earth. The only cutting happening here is "salvage". I got so high up on my box of soap flakes my brain was starved for oxygen. Nothing personal.
SliverPicker....No problem.
