Chopped-down alders
Why would anybody chop down three (perhaps more) young alder trees in the Gabriola woods? One of the chopped-off trees has been cast into the salal at the side of the trail. Perhaps the others have, too, though I’ve not spotted them. Odd.
This is on an old logging road that few hikers seem to use or know about. At places the road is so overgrown that it’s a skinny trail, or no trail at all. At other places, the road is wide enough for a truck to drive through without impediment. The trees that were cut were at the side of the wide section of trail – so cutting them didn’t serve any trail-clearing sort of purpose.
Peculiar.
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rick on 15 Feb 2012 at 12:38 pm #
It the chopped trees are in a straight line, my guess is a surveyor has followed a property or section line. They often whack down smaller trees that are growing right on the line. Did you see any flagging tape?
Gabriolan on 15 Feb 2012 at 3:04 pm #
rick – no flagging tape, nor other signs of surveying activity. Now that I know where the section lines are, I know that this trail is not on a section line. So, huh.
My guess is that somebody got a new axe and wanted to try it out. A lot. On somebody else’s property.