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Well the tree was there a few centuries before the line was. And like I said, it's impractical to fall them.
by burritas 4y ago
Well the tree was there a few centuries before the line was. And like I said, it's impractical to fall them.
- nine_k 4y agoThat is, it was impractical to fell them while building the line initially? The risk was considered too low for the cost of cutting and towing away large trees in a wide enough corridor?
- burritas 4y agoThe lines and paved road got put in during the old days of logging, I'd assume it was considered financially impractical for a number of reasons, likely from a legal perspective, due to many private property owners, along with a mixed bag of county, state and federally-owned land sprinkled in there, for a town of around 100 people or so. Things just kind of went along from there. Nowadays it's all that plus environmental lawsuits.