‘Something out of the Lorax’: Homeowner allegedly cut 100 trees on national trail to improve lake view

ozarksfirst ^

[Blueflag]

I get what you are saying, it’s just not at all my perspective.

I don’t hate wealth or wealthy people.

I despise a certain entitled behavior set, that’s all.

[PghBaldy]

What’s the point of nature if the darn trees are in the way?

[mylife]

touche!

[Sequoyah101]

Play stupid games...Justice

[wardaddy]

Free Assuming and Scolding

[wardaddy]

You don’t get to stand in judgment about folks money nor do I unless it’s mob money I guess

Wealthy?

It’s called rich

This forum has always been anti rich.

It’s just plain old jealousy and envy

It’s weird though admit it...

So called conservative site

I just think posts like some of these are ludicrous ...

A million dollar fine

Take his house

For cutting down 20 pines in the 10-20 year old range

Pine trees btw....in Missouri

Newsflash

Those were planted...

Not indig....not those kind I’m on a similar latitude middle TN and we have no pines unless planted as windbreaks or for erosion

[wardaddy]

Anyone who wants someone to lose their home for cutting down 20 non indigenous young pine trees that weren’t on their property is not interested in judgment

They are interested in revenge

Borne of jealousy and envy

Nothing to do with jealousy

[VTenigma]

You are assuming yourself. It’s obvious you know nothing about legitimate tree service companies. No legitimate tree company would cut trees in parkland. It would end them. Their liability would be so great as to be un-insurable going forward.

[wardaddy]

I build things .....a lot of things ...I used to be rich from it....which is why I know something about it

I’ve paid over a couple million in landscaping and tree cop requirements past 15 years in my projects

I’m very familiar

The assumption from scold republic that it must be mexercans is just bullshit

In the southern half of this nation nearly all outdoor work is now Latinos.....especIally in urban areas

Some do great work

Wether white black or Mexican Salvadoran or Guat or Honduran is irrelevant

It’s dependent on the owner running his men well

[VTenigma]

I agree with all your statements but one. I never said the tree cutters were “Mexicans”. That was whatyou “assumed” my comment meant. Illegal can mean many things. Why would you “assume” I #1 meant any individuals, #2 don’t know anything building things, tree work, working out doors, or who does what in this country, That’s a shit ton of assuming for someone accusing others of assuming.

[KC Burke]

white pines are natural in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozark hills.

[KC Burke]

sorry, I should have called it the “short leaf pine”,

Pinus echinata, the shortleaf pine, is a species of pine native to the eastern United States from southernmost New York, south to northern Florida, west to eastern Oklahoma, and southwest to eastern Texas. Shortleaf pine has the largest range of the southern US yellow pines, but reaches its ecological maxima around western Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains.

[Blueflag]

You are welcome to your opinion, and thankfully FR is here to let you express it.

We disagree here, and I will let it go at that. I am not anti-rich. Rather I have a big thing for individual property rights and individual responsibility within the rule of law.

A million dollar fine for cutting 100 pines in a national forest would be excessive, no doubt. Here on Lake Lanier there is an identifiable behavior problem with folks ignoring widely known laws about destroying or altering the landscape of the National parkland that surrounds the lake. If you buy property bordering the lake, you do not (with RARE exceptions) have a property line that makes it to the water. You do not own the land or foliage past your property lines.

Why is it OK to cut foliage or move earth on land you don’t own?

Hint: it’s not.

That’s all. The bad behavior happens to be correlated to the noveau-rich of the Atlanta metro are. MANY wealthy folks are good stewards of the lake and parkland.

Oh, many of these are the same folks who operate wake boats which are RUINING the shoreline. But I digress.

[Sequoyah101]

He made a stupid choice. He abused the rights of other. He behaved in a self-centered, uncaring and disrespectful way. I call people like that clods. The damage he did will take a long time to fix.

I still hope he receives lasting punishment.

Friends of a feather.

[wardaddy]

I didn’t say it was ok

I said like I do specific things

Pine trees as you should know are the possum of trees....everywhere

Excerpt in Missouri Ozarks they were likely planted

They were immature 20 years max

It’s some sort of national trail so I assume national jurisdiction

Folks here say million dollars or I hope he loses his home blah blah blah

That’s my gripe...

Let’s stick to what I said....strawman like the anti rich bias I’ve seen here from jump street is not new on free republic

Frankly it’s a sour bumch

I’m here for my friends....you are polite

[wardaddy]

Thanks KC

I trust your word here

You’re well known to me as a serious poster

Thank u

I used to camp at long pool in the ozarks above Dover in the 70s while at ole miss...it was our closest “mountains”

One night was sub zero and windy ...we got drunk on wild Turkey and passed out in cheap Coleman bags....somehow survived

I have been in hot springs two years in a row...stayed at Luckys old haunt...my kids like it

Not many pines but some

I’m from jax miss....the north south dividing line for loblolly and hard woods

Here in middle Tenneseee almost no pines unless planted

We have evergreens at altitude usually wherever rhododendron grows too

And rocky soil and lower hills have cedars galore

But middle Tn is hardwoods albeit smaller than central Miss varieties...I have a record Chinkapin oak on my ten acres verified by the state....only throws mast on random years....450 year old tree

Thanks again

[KC Burke]

Chinkapin Oaks are grand. We have only a few at the Lake of the Ozarks in central MO.

[Blueflag]

Thanks Wardaddy. Appreciate the polite clarity ;-)

How many zeroes I have in my net worth is hidden from FR …

[Paul R.]

Heck, sometimes the Feds themselves can’t (or regs make it impractical to) “mess with” Fed land.