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| YELLOW BIRCH (FALL LEAF COLOR YELLOW) LAST FALL... |
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...QUICKLY REDUCED TO THIS PILE OF WOOD CHIPS... |
Saturday, 8:30 AM. 49 degrees F at the ferry dock, 45 on the back porch. Wind WSW, mostly calm with light gusts. The sky is clear except for a few high fish scale clouds, the humidity 75%. The barometer is just beginning to fall, now at 30.42". The high today will be around 60, rising to the mid-60's tomorrow, with chances of thunderstorms yet again on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Several mornings ago Joan and I were eating breakfast and heard the rumble of big trucks pulling up just below our window. They were pulling huge tree removal equipment: back hoe with limb removal and and sawing attachment, stump grinder, etc., accompanied by a crew. Before we could even grasp what was happening the 50' yellow birch in a neighbor's yard was being cut down, first the limbs then the trunks and all fed into the chipper and loaded into a dump truck. The whole operation didn't take ten minutes. The wood chips were deposited in the lot across the street.
I have no problem with any of this, since I am a firm believer in property owners having control over their trees, as long as their trees don't infringe on someone else's property or safety. If the property owner isn't responsible for his trees the government must be, and that usually doesn't work very well.
I don't know for sure why the tree was taken down, but I assume it was for a good reason. Anyway it is none of my business, and I thought Almanac readers might like to know how big a pile of wood chips a 50' tree makes.
We enjoy having a view of the Big Lake and sometimes think it would be better with fewer trees, and that is indeed true. With the river birch gone our view of the lake is improved a bit, but we will never again enjoy the beauty of its fall color.
Be careful what you wish for.
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