High on the back hill, a red maple stood alone, apart from the solid mass of leaves, trunks, and limbs that started behind the rock wall. I approached slowly, allowing my eyes to follow the ever so slightly bending stem as it narrowed and split, feeding into a bushy top. A hot sun hung above, and the leaf shadows danced in rhythm with the breeze rolling on and off again across the hill top. I crouched down to inspect the base of this perhaps 40-year-old plant, then stood up, admired once more the heights of its crown, and took one step back. I then fired up my shiny chainsaw and cut that sucker down lickety-split.
All melodrama and joking aside, I did cut the tree. In fact, I’ve cut down tons of trees (though I’m still no professional). Growing up with only a woodstove for heat, I’ve no qualms when it comes to cutting trees – as long as I know there’s concern for sustainability, aesthetics, wildlife habitat, and in select situations, the principle of “hands off” preservation.
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