This only effects a few people but I’ll put it out anyway. During storm cleanup, you may want to hold off on cutting some trees if you don’t need to. I’m talking about large old fallen healthy trees. Some are valuable. After Hurricane Hugo we were told that some trees were worth thousands. They were used for gun stocks, furniture, and other things. Most valuable is black walnut, but some other types can be also. The only way some of this old wood can now be harvested is from a windfall. They should be OK down for a couple of months if people can leave them. I have no idea who to contact to buy them. Was told that when contacted some were told that they cut up several thousand dollars of rare wood just to get it out of there. News reported that one fallen tree was sold for 10,000. This was in 1988.
Thanks for that info for those who do not know it.
We have several black walnuts trees on and around our property. They’re pretty common here in CNY.
Every year I’m pulling sprouting walnuts out of my lawn and vegetable garden.
Along those same lines I know that some people (not me of course) will use the cover of such events to “weed out” certain pesky trees that their local gub’ment (or HOA) would rather stay.