People are already counting board-feet before it dies.
One of the things I liked about Lassen National Park (N. Cal.) is that it has never been logged or "salvaged". You can see the whole cycle, from saplings, to giants, to snags, to fallen trees, to trees gradually turning into soil.
They might want to let this just fall and slowly return to the earth whence it came.
At least one big tree (not a giant, but pretty large) came down in Big Basin, across a trail we regularly hike. I'd guess a 100+ year old Douglas Fir. The usual treatment is to cut out the section of trunk that crosses the trail, and push it off to the side.
There's a reason the 300ish foot redwoods are usually in gulches -- a degree of protection from wind storms.
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One of the things I liked about Lassen National Park (N. Cal.) is that it has never been logged or "salvaged". You can see the whole cycle, from saplings, to giants, to snags, to fallen trees, to trees gradually turning into soil.
They might want to let this just fall and slowly return to the earth whence it came.
At least one big tree (not a giant, but pretty large) came down in Big Basin, across a trail we regularly hike. I'd guess a 100+ year old Douglas Fir. The usual treatment is to cut out the section of trunk that crosses the trail, and push it off to the side.
There's a reason the 300ish foot redwoods are usually in gulches -- a degree of protection from wind storms.
- mark 1-08-2007 11:12 pm