I live in Gettysburg, and this article is completely misleading. The Park Service is currently implementing a multimillion dollar program to restore the battlefield as much as possible to its 1863 appearance. That requires the removal of hundreds of trees that are there now but were not in 1863. In fact, most of the battlefield had been largely cleared by local farmers at the time, with the second and third growth trees appearing much later on. The Park Service has very carefully analyzed period photographs from the Library of Congress and National Archives and other repositories to try and determine which specific trees did exist during the battle (not many remain) and to then preserve them during the current removal operations. The Rangers' efforts are most certainly not the indiscriminate and wanton destruction of trees that the author of this piece would have you believe.
I agree with your posts- they seem to have a more proper perspective.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and I possess about five hundred pictures... Still counting, too.
The present Park administration is bilking the taxpayers of millions of dollars by NOT maintaining the REAL neccessities of the Park... 99% of the deer have been killed off so the Park can plant seedlings for countless orchards that were here at the time of the battle... Fence lines are changed countlessly to appease the current superintendent.
If you want to really know any battlefield you have to walk its land continually, reference your own maps and read constantly.. When you do this you learn to appreciate and respect nature...
You don't have to depend on some politically correct Nazi superintendant raping the land to appease those in kind and his (0r her) legacy.
Anyway, in ten minutes I'll be out there with my camera, continuing to record the rape of Gettysburg.