CLEARED in one thing-—Thinned & brush removed is another.
NONE of these trees are healthy- There is too much density & none of threes are getting the water & sunlight they need to be healthy.
The BARK BEETLE has ruined vast areas of the forests west of the Mississippi.
Those in charge would NOT listen when we told then to let the bark beetle trees be cut down & logged.
The sierra Club is the ground zero of this whole problem.
I lived with oak & pine trees on my acreage. I kept it well cleared. So did my neighbors. The National Forests are a disaster in more ways than one.
I would gladly have a conversation with anyone who only lives in NYC & thinks that Central Park is a forest.
Dying 50+ year old pine trees have cost us thousands of $’s the past 3 years. The bark beetles had basically killed or harmed every pine tree in our area.
3 were in our front yard, planted by a previous owner. Total cost to cut down, chip and remove the rotting stumps $5,000.
The year before a good neighbor and I went in half’s on 3 pine trees bordering on our mutual back yards. That only cost $4500.
Last year we had one remaining pine tree, a huge and dying tree in both back yards. That tree cost $2500 and we had the chips scattered and left in our back yards.
Last year the local deer herd killed our Rock Roses and other shrubs like Pyracathia by eating too close to the roots. $2,000 to our yard guy to cut and remove the dead or dying brush and haul the crud to the local dump. No one would chip the stuff as it gums up chippers. The city/county chippers were destroyed by this crud by June a year ago, and they could not chip our crud.