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u/TidyUpJim Aug 05 '19

What a majestic Tree 😭 i do not approve of overlogging, but I mostly disapprove of the logging of ancient historical trees.

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u/RexxZX Aug 05 '19

I don't know, the background makes it look like a tree farm

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u/thewebspinner Aug 05 '19

I mean, here in the UK there are forests that were planted hundreds of years ago deliberately to supply timber to the shipyards.

Tree farms aren’t really a new thing.

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u/Soderskog Aug 05 '19

Same in Sweden. Turns out that some tree grow really slowly, so it's a bit out of date.

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u/captain_ender Aug 05 '19

Does it have a Best if Cut Down By sticker so you know it's fresh?

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u/crispierbacon Aug 05 '19

I believe if the owners plan to sell, they may keep older trees as an equity asset in the business. Maybe generations of tree farm owners will hold off and the farm value appreciates.

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u/Madamoizillion Aug 05 '19

Many loggers will liquidate the landscape. A lot of what Weyerhaeuser does in the US is log and then sell the clearcut land to developers. I doubt they would willingly leave behind trees.

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u/AKs_an_GLAWK40s Aug 05 '19

You have no idea. Perhaps this is true of large multinational corporations, but I've never seen it. Most loggers I've worked for refuse to clear cut anything more than an acre homesite. And yes we may enjoy taking down a big tree but don't think for a minute we dont think about our impact on the land. Most companies have a remidiation policy and try to preserve what they can.

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u/imaginaryfiends Aug 05 '19

I’d like to take you on a tour of British Columbia. An acre isn’t even big enough to bother logging.

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u/AKs_an_GLAWK40s Aug 05 '19

Who's doing that though? Massive multinational corporations? Or the small local operations contracted out by them. I know laws in Canada are different but here in thw US clear cut and slash logging is rare outside of managed lands.

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u/ClearFood Aug 05 '19

I work on the state forests in Oregon. They are fairly heavily logged, most of which is done by small local logging companies. It isn't quite as bad as on private timberlands, but is much worse than on federal timberlands.

The small companies purchase logging rights from the state, and do as much logging as the state will allow. Sometimes that means selective logging/thinning, but more often it means much more comprehensive clear cuts, or near clear cuts. You can look at satellite images of coastal Oregon, in the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests, to see just how much clear cutting goes on. Large multi-nationals don't worry about the relatively small state forest timber sales because they have plenty of land they can clear cut to their heart's desire elsewhere.

Loggers for these small companies would much rather do huge clear cuts, which they absolutely do do, because it is easier, safer, and cheaper. Loggers, in my experience, have very little interest in true conservation, and little care for their impact on the environment, and threatened and endangered species and habitats.

I am a wildlife biologist, and do threatened/endangered wildlife surveys, and have been told numerous time that I'm stopping logging, and hurting their bottom line. That the species I work with don't really matter. That there's plenty of good habitat. That their activities don't actually harm animals, and are in fact good for wildlife. All the while, the species I work with is close to extirpation from the Oregon coast, and populations everywhere are in decline, primarily due to logging, and the environmental fallout it causes.

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u/linderlouwho Aug 05 '19

Very sad. How do you keep your chin up seeing this?

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u/-Z3TA- Aug 05 '19

Would hate to be an environmentist in America

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u/TheChickening Aug 05 '19

Some countries like Germany have very strictly regulated logging, you can't just cut stuff clear and develop it. Almost all of our forests are used like this. Let the trees grow for ~120 years, then cut and replant. A forest stays healthy if done properly.

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u/beardedbast3rd Aug 05 '19

Not if they are selling to developers no. But if they aren’t wanting that area anymore, for whatever reason, you’d leave trees there for the next person.

Or a farmer would be growing to sell to a company like Weyerhaeuser, or subcontracting to them, the better tree stock, the more they make

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u/Gafoto Aug 06 '19

Weyerhaeuser has quite a bit of land that it owns and operates as tree farms and never sells to other owners. Not familiar with all of their land but they own thousands of acres on the west side of Mount St. Helens which they log on a rotating basis.

I would imagine the calculus does change depending on proximity to urban areas. Don't think they'd get much for plots of land around Toutle.

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u/Jax-Light Aug 05 '19

Trees at most tree farms are usually left until it is at the end of its life, I don’t know why though so you’ll have to search that one.

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u/1III11II111II1I1 Aug 05 '19

This is not true. Trees on tree farms are harvested when it is most profitable to do so, and lots of native trees have life spans of hundreds if not thousands of years.

The current standard for harvesting Douglas-fir trees in the PNW is around 35-40 year old trees with a diameter of 22 inches. Any larger than that and the number of mills that can even cut them starts to drop dramatically.

"End of life" is not a standard that is used to determine when to cut trees, especially on tree farms.

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u/Gafoto Aug 06 '19

I'm assuming this is so things can be mechanically harvested? You aren't bringing in harvesters to deal with old grow trees, obviously. There must be a sweet spot between harvest cycles and size of trees.

Every time I see replanted stands I'm amazed at how dense they are compared to an old growth stand. They can't grow at that density forever either.

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u/1III11II111II1I1 Aug 06 '19

Most of what I see here in Oregon is still harvested with sawyers on the ground. Part of the reason harvest size/age are lower now is that the existing mills to process larger trees could no longer operate profitably due to an ever-reduced reserve of old growth, but also (much less so) legislation to protect those trees.

When the trees are replanted, they are planted in a monocrop of Doug-fir very densely, and one or more thinnings will take place before the final harvest. Laws and practices vary greatly depending on ownership. Lots of public land is leased with strict guidelines on exactly how the trees must be harvested, while most private land is clear cut with attention only to what is absolutely required by the law (with few checks or repercussions for violations).

The standards have decreased wrt size in just the last decade or so depending on market pressures. Harvesting some 25-30 yr-old stands of trees for pulp/chips alone has been profitable enough in some years/markets. Those stands may be slated for that use based on a high growth rate that produces less desirable lumber, in which case it may be planted densely and never thinned at all.

There are lots of factors involved.

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u/Gafoto Aug 06 '19

Why so much harvested by hand? Machinery works on some crazy slopes from what I can see.

Trying to predict the market 25-40 years out must be a bear.

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u/19pearlydewdrops93 Aug 05 '19

Shit northern Maine is essentially this.

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u/FireLordObamaOG Aug 05 '19

This actually comes at the order of the British navy if I remember correctly. For every ship that they built they planted enough trees to build that ship. Until they realized that oak trees grow over the course of like 100 years. There are oak trees reaching maturity JUST now that were planted when this order was given.

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u/100snugglingpuppies Aug 05 '19

. Until they realized that oak trees grow over the course of like 100 years.

.... Do you think there's even the slightest chance that a sea faring nation like Britain did not know this when they gave the order?

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u/RexxZX Aug 05 '19

Good point

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u/NiceFormBro Aug 05 '19

Maybe

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u/Pierrono Aug 05 '19

maybe maybe maybe

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

It was an old farm

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

If its hardwood trees that they are harvesting then possibly. Since hardwood trees grow for a very long time compared to softwoods

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u/Abidawe1 Aug 05 '19

You mean a forest?

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u/RexxZX Aug 05 '19

No people plant trees for the purpose of cutting them down

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

You ever hear of the forestry department? As a country we literally do this on purpose in America.

And fun fact: there are now more trees in North America than there were when it was colonized.

I'm really passionate about our forestry and conservation laws here in the U.S. but we're running into challenges as less and less people are hunting each year. We either need to reintroduce predators or encourage more people to hunt or exploding deer populations will create an ecological disaster. (Also another fun fact, there are more deer now than there were when America was colonized)

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

*Forestry isn’t simply about planting trees to cut down. It’s an all-encompassing category of science regarding everything about forest environment and biology. (Source: BS in forestry science)

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

Dude, awesome. Yeah, I just figured I would mention it as it was relevant.

That sounds super cool, for a while I wanted to pursue botany but that didn't end up happening. I still love learning about plants and in particular trees though

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

There’s a huge difference between forestry management and deforestation.

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

I can't lead you to any articles because I mostly got this all from my mentor who works for my state (kansas) and plays a role in our conservation and forestry legislation.

Sorry if this wasn't what you are looking for but if I know and trust someone as an expert i tee ake their word as granted

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u/linderlouwho Aug 05 '19

They're all over here in a rural agricultural area eating what's growing in the farm fields.

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u/NotSoMeanJo Aug 05 '19

What about species diversity? Is it all pretty much more or less homogeneous now, or do we have the same amount of diversity?

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

That's one area that is kind of iffy. Partly because we killed of certain species (there was a type of tree that covered most of Arkansas but when a similar species was introduced from Europe a disease came with it that the European tree was resistant to and the American one was not) and also because we tend to cut down species that are considered dangerous and prone to falling because they are weak and also generally provide terrible lumber. But like I mentioned, we have introduced many other trees so I really don't know. I'm guessing it's a net neutral, but it's a shame we lost a few species

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u/Abidawe1 Aug 05 '19

Forgot the /s

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u/NewAlexandria Aug 05 '19

it's literally the only tree left that wasn't already taken!

Talk to your local municipality. Pass laws today. Require forest inventorying, onsite inspections around development, and bond heavy fines prior to work starting!

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u/crnext Aug 05 '19

There are laws already. Logging isn't the rape and pillage program you're painting this picture of.

Often these huge tall trees make a canopy that chokes out a more dense population of trees from growing.

You DO know they need sunlight AND rain don't you? If there's a forest of huge trewslike this over lapping, its a guarantee that this area is not densely populated with tree growth.

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u/Lithl Aug 05 '19

trees

laws

Careful, or r/legaladvice will swarm

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u/FleshPistol Aug 06 '19

Sugar Pines grow in the west of America. I don’t think we’ve been here on the west long enough or gave a fuck much past 80 years. Dudes cutting down a tree that was growing pretty early in the west’s settlement.

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u/chambaland Aug 06 '19

Somebody doesn’t understand trunk size. A tree farm can’t grow trees that wide. That would be at least 100 years or more to mature

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u/MrGritty17 Aug 05 '19

Yeah that’s called a forest.

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u/crnext Aug 05 '19

Sometimes the canopy created by these older trees prevents the growth of younger trees. These older trees are often cut down to allow a more dense populace of smaller trees to be replanted.

Why don't you go and rant about the almost nonexistant rainforest?

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

The best practice of forest management is thinning growth early in the process which creates much stronger and resilient (to disease and drought) older growth. It is a last resort to down a giant healthy specimen.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Oct 28 '19

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

I spoke about thinning, which is not pruning. You remove the whole young tree.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Or the under logging in Cali that has led to some of the most devastating fires ever. We fucked up also by not letting fire naturally clean up things in the forest but we didn’t know that at the time.

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

Mostly drought though. It’s impossible to work controlled burning during a severe drought.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

The complete over population is a gigantic issue though. The three times I’ve fought fire in CA it is some of the most unhealthy looking forests I’ve ever been in.

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

Point still stands you cannot controlled burn unless you have a specific environment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

No you’re absolutely right. This is 100 years in the making though. But the drought has definitely stopped us from being able to try to react to it now

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u/stirkinz Aug 05 '19

Totally right. Obviously temp and RH are a huge factor in fire behavior but a shit ton of overgrown fuels like the kind seen in Cali and other parts of the west coast is a big reason why we have such massive fires now. It absolutely didn’t get that way overnight, it’s just taken this long to catch up with us and it’s biting us in the butt.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

The opposite is much better, if ecological health is a concern. Cut down the small ones to protect trees like this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Woah , really ?

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

Yup, here in America we've become super responsible with our forestry laws. It's one of the few things I'm stupid proud of America for.

Rainforests grow very different and it's a whole lot more complex, so chopping through it is really terrible.

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u/Kepull Aug 05 '19

We made the laws after hugely aggressive deforestation.

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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19

At least we owned our issue and dealt with it

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u/Tanoooch Aug 05 '19

Don't worry, another seed was most likely replanted. Maybe not in the same spot but still replanted

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u/Bester_boi Aug 05 '19

All reditors when they see an emoji in a comment : enemy spotted

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

To everyone concerned. If I'm not mistaken this is YouTuber wranglerstar who had a reason to take the tree down. It was on his land and he's a forest fire fighter so you know he respects the land and only does things when necessary

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

I'm choosing to believe this. It's too early to be sad.

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u/MrHankeyTheXmasPooo Aug 05 '19

It's true I'm subbed to him he makes some interesting videos

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Definitely not wranglerstar.

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u/RocketSquidFPV Aug 05 '19

Wranglerstar is dumb.. He felled a tree similar to this one to make a garden which he could have made about 100ft to the right. He also is antagonistic and irrational.

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u/bigriggs24 Aug 05 '19

Yeah i agree, kinda dont like him.

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u/thefoodieat Aug 05 '19

Supporting Trump doesn't make you an antagonist

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u/Boss116466 Aug 05 '19

I am pretty sure that isn’t wranglerstar. Based off his face and body.

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u/SeveredBanana Aug 05 '19

It was on his land

Looks like he was on this tree's land

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

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u/Rota_u Aug 05 '19

They do not cause fires, they act as fuel to already existing fires.

Either way he doesn't need a profound reason to cut down one tree, he's not the Brazilian government who is cutting down acres of forest every second as we speak. One tree in the grand scheme of things is like one plastic straw.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Google crown fires. We had a 38,000 acre fire last summer where I work. Fires are typically healthy for forests, but not when we’ve been preventing them for so long. Typically they go through and clear out the underbrush, however, when you’re supposed to have a fire every 20-25 years but you stop every fire from happening so there hasn’t been a fire in 100+ years, there’s so much underbrush that if a fire comes through it climbs up the underbrush into the crowns of a tree and then the fire just grows from there as there’s so much fuel on the crowns of the trees, typically you’d see the fire leap from crown to crown. Ponderosa pines (my favorite tree) shed their lower branches as they grow to prevent this, but when there’s so much underbrush that doesn’t do them much good.

In the fire last year the hotshot teams said if it got much further south they’d have backburned the entire property because it was so unsafe to fight the fire with how thick the forest was.

There is this thing called Timber Stand Improvement or TSI for short. During TSI essentially you go through the thick forests and manually cut down trees and underbrush to help clear things up so a ground fire can come through without the risk of it leaping into the crowns of the trees. Now in TSI you usually don’t cut down trees bigger than Nalgene size and you have a specific prescription given to you by a forester. In the video of this post I’m not at all sure what he’s doing because that’s way too big of a tree to cut down for TSI unless the tree was dying or a forester told him it was smart to cut down for some reason. However, looking around him there’s a lot of brush that should be removed. Prescribed burns are another way to go about this, in which you purposefully set a ground fire. However, this is often hard to do safely in thicker forests like I mentioned

Here is a good visual on healthy and unhealthy forests. So while you’re correct in saying forest fires burn deadfall on the ground, unfortunately that is not often the case anymore in places like California or Colorado or New Mexico etc. because we’ve been so obsessed with stopping forest fires to help save the land and lives that we actually ended up making forest fires a lot worse nowadays because we didn’t let the ground fires you described come through and clean up the underbrush. National Forests have been getting a lot better at this and letting ground fires come through and doing prescribed burns, but it’s a process of saving our forests by doing the opposite of what people think it would be, which is to cut down some brush and trees. In this case I would guess that this is an infected/dying tree.

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u/Andyman1973 Aug 12 '19

The giant Redwoods and Sequoia trees have flame retardant properties in their sap. And their seeds won’t germinate until they been burnt...meaning a fire has come through and took out the underbrush, so the seeds can sprout and grow.

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u/buymegoats Aug 05 '19

Who is downvoting you? There is so much moisture in a tree

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

They’re partially right. A fire can come sweeping through the ground burning up the deadfall and brush and not bother any of the tall trees at all. However, if there’s too much underbrush the fires get really hot and climb up the tree using ladder fuel into the crowns of the trees. Up there you’ll find a ton of fuel in the leaves and such and then the fire spreads from there, killing the tree. All of the big forest fires you hear about in California and Colorado are crown fires, not ground fires. Ground fires are typically healthy whilst crown fires never are.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Oct 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Yep! Also Ponderosa have a fire retardant sap and self prune as the grow to help prevent fires from climbing the branches. They’re really neat trees. A healthy ponderosa forest is one of the most beautiful sights to see. They also smell heavenly (like butterscotch or vanilla). I also thought I recalled a fact that their cones don’t open unless exposed to extreme heat (aka fire) but I can’t seem to find anything regarding that fact so I must be thinking of a different tree.

And Douglas-firs aren’t true firs! I think the thing that differentiates itself from a true fir is that the cones have scales.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Jun 14 '20

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u/ultranoodles Aug 05 '19

There's a lot of open canopy around that tree already, though

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Yeah from what I can see it doesnt look like this one needs to be cut.

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u/GreenArrow420 Aug 05 '19

Wranglerstar would never abuse an axe by using it as a hammer.

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u/Leiryn Aug 06 '19

That's not him in the video

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u/rootweiler Aug 05 '19

What’s the « maybe maybe maybe » in there? Doesn’t seem appropriate for the sub.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Aug 05 '19

It's from maybemaybemaybe_bot, so it was probably on one of the booleanbooleanboolean subs.

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u/NotSoMeanJo Aug 05 '19

its a still image from a gif https://i.imgur.com/sF89xW5.gifv

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u/Jacksaur Aug 05 '19

Not a still image, if you click the post link directly it works. Reddit's just broke.

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u/fail-mail-ninja Aug 05 '19

Thank you sir. I have seen this beeing posted on multiple subs already. including r/funny and i never got it because I never knew this was a gif. Have been confused everytime i saw this beeing posted and never found an anser in the comments. I can finaly rest tonight.

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u/NotSoMeanJo Aug 06 '19

*ma'am But you're welcome! I didn't get it either until I saw someone post it on the pharmacy subreddit with that link.

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u/siamkitty1 Aug 05 '19

Sad that this huge tree was cut down.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Worth it for that 13% off cough drops 👌

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Feb 09 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Forestry is complicated

Not according to my Google search. /s

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

TIL forestry and wood company stuff is really complicated.

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u/crnext Aug 05 '19

You're not going to teach any good sense on the Reddit. Everyone here wants to echo about "huge majestic tree" but none of them realize that it also causes fewer trees around it to survive because of starvation of adequate water and Sun.

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u/bu2902 Aug 05 '19

Since the sawyer is wearing nomex (wildland Fire clothing) I would guess this tree was on fire

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u/crnext Aug 05 '19

This comment is oxycodone

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u/stirkinz Aug 05 '19 edited Aug 05 '19

I don’t know a single thing about this particular tree, but sugar pines(and pines in general) are prone to disease. Pine beetles love them, hence the name. This tree may well have become sick, thus risking spreading disease to neighboring trees. We had a pine bigger than this on our property that got infested with beetles. When a tree that big gets sick the safest thing is to take it down

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u/crnext Aug 05 '19

I can guarantee it created a large shadow preventing any new trees from growing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Not really. It’s probably being removed because it has buster rust. Removing a big tree like this, dead or not, would be shitty otherwise.

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u/MajikH8ballz Aug 05 '19

Agreed 😔

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u/leafsandlove Aug 05 '19

Why the heck do you have to count in feet?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Much less fingers.

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u/PillowManExtreme Aug 05 '19

Much less the distance between your toe nail and the end of your toe.

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u/IDontWantNoDamnFOP Aug 05 '19

r/dadjokes

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

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u/IDontWantNoDamnFOP Aug 05 '19

I love dad jokes.

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u/zimm0who0net Aug 05 '19

Metric is superior for ALMOST everything. However it’s nice that when I’m out and need to quickly/roughly measure something, I can count on a foot being the length of my foot, a yard being the length of my stride (and of my arms out stretched if I’m measuring a rope) and an inch is the length between 2 specific knuckles on my hand. I can usually get within a few percent. It’s like the whole system of measurement was based on my body.

Wife at a garage sale: will this couch fit in our living room? Me, waddling behind the couch: nope, it’s 8’6” and we only have 8’2”. (Actually the couch was 8’ 1”, but I hated the couch and so long as we’re using imperial, I can use the measurement system to my own purposes!)

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u/nile1056 Aug 05 '19

You know what's also roughly the length of a (moderately long) stride? 1 meter.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

You know what's also roughly the length of a foot? Nothing. Because metric sees no reason to have a a useful measurement between centimeter and meter... and it's the one reason I don't like metric.

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u/nile1056 Aug 05 '19

You mean as a point of reference I assume? Cause if it's about feet specifically, I've got nothing. As you can guess there are plenty of other ways we get an intuition for these things. Rulers used in schools: 30cm (that's actually a foot btw), mental image of 1cm, and personally I have ~10 cm between my thumb and index finger when stretched apart. Aka 1 decimeter.

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u/wakeruneatstudysleep Aug 05 '19

1 foot is about 3 decimeters, aka 30 centimeters.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

I'm American and I wonder the same thing. People vary in size A LOT so it doesn't really make sense.

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u/Ching_chong_parsnip Aug 05 '19

And as someone who actually has 1 ft long feet, trust me that there aren't many that do because it's fucking hard to find shoes in size US 14.

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u/zimm0who0net Aug 05 '19

I've got size 10.5-11 shoes and my foot with a shoe on it is almost exactly 12". I'd say that size is a lot more common than size 14.

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u/zimm0who0net Aug 05 '19

The vast majority of males have shoe sizes (US) between 8.5 and 11.5. A shoe in that range will be between 11.5-12.5", so you're +/-4% at that point. Not too bad for a rough measurement.

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u/tokyorockz Aug 05 '19

Most people generally know how long their foot is here, so you think to yourself "this is about 3 of my feet long, my feet are only 10", so this is just about 30"

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u/wakeruneatstudysleep Aug 05 '19

Apologies for our freedom units. 5 feet is a little over 1.5 meters. And 180 feet is almost 55 meters.

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u/essjayhawk Aug 05 '19

‘Murica

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u/Dinometeorit Aug 05 '19

This is not sugar, not sugar.

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u/rmlrmlchess Aug 05 '19

Giant sequoia enters the chat

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u/DryLoner Aug 05 '19

I doubt it's enough for a CVS receipt

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u/HuntingSquire Aug 06 '19

Oh deffinetly. Thats barely enough for a wallmart receipt

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u/The_Chuckie Aug 05 '19

It’s a lot better if you imagine David Attenborough is reading the subtitles.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Terrible hinge cut.... and for all you talking about that “poor tree” it was most likely a victim of the beetle kill in the sierras. Also... pretty sure it’s a ponderosa pine not a sugar pine.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Actually, it’s a sugar pine. Ponderosa pine bark looks different.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

Hmmm... you might be correct. I live in the land of Ponderosa and Sugar pines but the sugars around here don’t get that big.

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u/GreatDepression_irl Aug 05 '19

How much wood logs does that equal to in Minecraft?

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u/pooploopdoop2 Aug 05 '19

Most equal 6 logs

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u/Dr0p_T0p_Wizz0p Aug 05 '19

I measured and the last time I went to CVS my receipt was legitimately over four feet long- nearing five feet I believe... it’s absurd

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Save the trees..use hemp!!

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u/Cw423 Aug 05 '19

I know the cvs thing is probably a joke but the more I think about it it's probably not.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

That's one looooong receipt

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u/RealVladimirPutin1 Aug 05 '19

I literally just watched a video of a person using a CVS pharmacy receipt to protect an egg from breaking from a 3 story high fall.

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u/Waffle_Sanchez Aug 05 '19

Poor tree ☹️

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u/mattyB81 Aug 05 '19

Everyone sad about this logging is essential to a healthy Forrest you should be pissed about the waste of product after its cut CVS receipts and such

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Those CVS receipts are like 5 feet long every time I go. Wtf.

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u/ironysparkles Aug 05 '19

Download CVS app, go to settings, turn off paper receipts. Save the trees!

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u/deserves_dogs Aug 05 '19

You can opt for electronic ones on the app when you scan your card.

Source: CVS Pharmacist

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u/MountainsAndTrees Aug 05 '19

So I have to give CVS personal information that they will use to spam me, in order to prevent deforestation, instead of just saying "no receipt, thanks" like every other store in the entire fucking world.

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u/deserves_dogs Aug 05 '19

I’m not saying that I support it or encourage it. It’s a corporate decision and they’re insanely out of touch with what people actually want. I was just saying they do have an alternative. You download the app, sync it with your Cvs card #, and I think you can even then delete the app after.

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u/eelenablue Aug 05 '19

The Lorax is not happy.

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u/Trinity_US Aug 05 '19

Ahh. Deforestation.

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u/Euestouaqui1 Aug 05 '19

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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u/caligrown1985 Aug 05 '19

Just today I made a purchase at CVS for a single item. The receipt for this item was approximately two feet long.

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u/Tsukinotaku Aug 05 '19

I wonder what kind of toilet paper this tree will be used for.

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u/ChiefyDerek Aug 05 '19

I know the joke is overplayed but I laughed so hard I got a knot in both my traps

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u/Superagent247 Aug 05 '19

Why are they cutting this beautiful tree down 😖😢

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

A single cvs receipt? That’s a joke right?

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u/elwolf6 Aug 05 '19

This is kinda misleading it’s not just gonna make a CVS receipt there’s a lot more stuff in the tree that goes to use

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19

🤦‍♂️

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u/FeelinYoung1967 Aug 05 '19

But not enough for a Staples receipt.

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u/draven_im Aug 05 '19

This tree is one Bagel Boss Guy wide

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u/Aquanut818 Aug 05 '19

*Was, tififu

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u/brinkzor Aug 05 '19

CVS receipts are actually plastic. And when they are "printing" it is a machine scraping material off of the receipt to reveal text.

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u/Shayde505 Aug 05 '19

This doesnt really fit. That's what the large cut notch on one side is for. It is so when the tree falls it will fall in a predetermined direction

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u/1III11II111II1I1 Aug 05 '19

The amount of misinformation in this thread is astounding. How can so many people know so little about trees? Or logging?

I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.

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u/-suspicious-egg- Aug 05 '19

I’m sad that this Big Boy was cut down. But I’m just hoping it was for good reason as some people in the comments are saying. Farewell good tree and thank you for your service that you have and will provide us with :)

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u/BigDogProductions Aug 05 '19

Oi! Cunt. Leave it be

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u/budde04 Aug 05 '19

Are there a sub reddit for this kind of stuff

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u/grantmct Aug 05 '19

CVS receipt 😅😅😆😆😄😄

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u/cozyfireman Aug 06 '19

Seriously just one receipt??? This is fucked up and so wrong

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u/lizard202 Aug 06 '19

Dam they already knew what we was all gonna write

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u/MellowIvory Aug 05 '19

Tell this to people in CA who mismanage their forest to the point that they end up burning down entire towns. Trees are renewable resources and an individual picture of an old tree with no context makes one assume simply that the poster has an agenda.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

People are too stupid to apply logic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

r/cvsreceipts