I Prefer Beavers

There's logging happening across the river. It's state-owned land, but I doubt this is not part of a state-sponsored work program or vocational school. I wandered over yesterday and saw a vastly widened road and several dozen stacked trees. This morning they're logging directly across from us. In the last fifteen minutes seven trees were felled. It's 9AM... the math doesn't bode well.

I believe there's a law prohibiting logging with x feet of a riverbank. Aint seein' no one measurin' out there... just big, tall, healthy trees falling, one after another.

Wood products are necessary -- this cabin would be dang chilly if all the wood were removed. And since that forest was last logged in the 1970's, it definitely need cleaning. But if I trust whoever is doing this to be conscious and respectful, and they -- accidentally -- take just a few extra trees they really shouldn't, well, who's going to care? This is a timber region, by god.

Our view across the river is already changed; how will it look when they finally bring the logging truck down what was a small path, and take all they've cut? Guaranteed, there will be MUCH more traffic over because they "improved" the road.