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.
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.
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.
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!
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/
In a related story, all of the Spotted Owls living in those cut down trees were relocated to several abandoned Kmart Signs.
If successful, grants will be sought to create a Spotted Owl Kmart Sign Sanctuary. They will work to create unique Kmart signs with ready-made nooks and crannies for better Spotted Owl nesting.
Yo lorax!
You may want to know that as of this moment of time there are more TREES in on this world then have been in the last 2000 years or so.
We plant trees, we farm trees. Trees are a sustainable renewable resource. The trees being cut down do they reduce car emissions or do they esasabrate them? Some species of plants (trees) have been found to be problematic in that area.
Black ice in shade is a known and deadly hazard but what the hell lets just leave it out there. Keep the trees, ban anyone else form moving there, put up gates and create a statewide “hoa” so all your ho’s and a’s are happy.
Also if you haven’t heard there’s a new strain of covid out there you better go home and lock the door and get ready for the end whines.....
Some trees will be preserved and avoid being felled around the Huetter rest area.
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If those trees’ roots are driven over, the ground is compressed and the oxygen cannot get to them. Those trees die.
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw