Posted on 10/04/2025 8:07:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The list of excuses for cutting down the trees is hilarious and nothing but a bunch of red herrings. Sunlight, shadows on the roadway, ice in winter, trees falling down in storms...however did we manage with all those dangerous and deadly trees since the freeway was built in the 1960s?
The amount of residential and commercial construction around here is staggering. The remaining farms are rapidly disappearing, the subdivisions are being built where forests were clear-cut, and the roads are jammed. It was regulated growth before COVID, but way too many people discovered North Idaho during the pandemic and the population is exploding.
One man’s friend is another’s weed.
Can one see the forest better now?
My old home town had acres and acres of woods. Almost all cut down to build mega-warehouses, huge “chicken coop” apartment complexes, etc.
Instead of playing outside in nature, kids can sit glued in front of screens with earbuds.
Progress /s.
Better to see the Deer and Elk coming out also.
I have always thought that the various governments should make use of road rights of way to grow tree farms for sale to lumber mills. It would beautify most drives with nice scenery and be a cost savings for taxpayers.
We used to have trees along the interstate in Georgia. They whacked a wide swath on both sides of the freeway. They even took a bunch out of rest areas to better set up recharging stations.
Nobody moves there anymore, it's too crowded.
You should have seen the mass turmoil and mass displacement the building of America’s interstate system caused.
They could get pine bark beetles.
I was there for it as a kid. Our extended family was scattered in Valparaiso, Indiana, Chicago, Idaho (north and south), Albuquerque, and Fort Worth. We drove that giant loop every couple of years when I was from 4 to 16 years old! I remember well the construction messes of the interstate system and read about all the “urban renewal” that was triggered when tenements were torn down to build the highways.
Just got back from our place in Coeur d’Alene. Talked to a recent transplant, so many retired people are moving there. I feel sad for locals, especially young families being priced out of the market.
I saw entire neighborhoods removed and remember many newspaper articles of old school stubborn people resisting the loss of their properties with guns at the gates and the media being sympathetic to them, it had to happen but some of the old American cussedness was still respected.
It’s not just Idaho. They’re destroying trees all along I-85 in Georgia, apparently because somebody going 100 mph in a run from police might veer off the road and crash into them. Uglification is expensive as well as insane, so (naturally) the government is very into it.
The bottom line is that the tort lawyers are causing the trees to be cut down along all roadways. Layers are the scourge of this nation. No one accepts responsibility for their stupid actions any longer.
O, the huge manatee!
Ha...Oregon used to do that...
So I guess there aren’t going to be any light poles, camera poles or power poles along the highway cause a car might hit one if it is out of control. s/
EISENHOWER SET UP THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
WHEN PEARL HARBOR HAPPENED & IT TOOK THE MILITARY 5 1/2 DAYS TO GO ACROSS THE USA, HE DECIDE TO CHANGE THAT.
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