Please stop cutting down park’s trees | Letter

Published 9:00 am Thursday, May 9, 2013

How can we halt the cutting of our state park trees? We were told drastic measures had to be taken against root rot or it will destroy our forest.

Well, part of the forest is now destroyed. The stumps are left as evidence of what we’ve lost. New trees are already planted. This is apparently the “cure for the disease” and there are still more trees in the park to be “cured.” But we were also told the root rot travels underground, so all stumps and roots of all rotted trees, and all healthy trees in a 50-foot radius must be uprooted and burned. Oops! Why was this step missed if root rot is so dangerous. Already the new forest of root rot resistant trees is planted. I say: no more logging of state park trees. Stewardship of our state parks means protecting what is a living and dying ecosystem as it goes through its life cycle over generations.

Rivkah Sweedler

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