Investigators are trying to determine who drove six-inch nails into hundreds of red pine trees near Backus. They think the vandals might have thought they were saving the trees from logging; about 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. But now the entire forest will be cut down because of safety concerns, the authorities said. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said that if a saw hit one of the nails, “it would explode like a gun going off” and could cause serious injury
Unintended consequences are a bugger aren't they?
Heh..!
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of those mink huggers who released hundreds into the wild to 'save' them from being made into coats.
ReplyDeleteThey went onto destroy the local wildlife as a new top predator.
It'd be funny if it weren't so depressing.
ReplyDeletePlato- I thought of those mink too.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall about ten years ago there was a tree on the beach on Tuvalu, the Maldives or some other "threatened" island. This often appeared in publicity about rising sea levels. The implication being that as sea levels rose this tree, already exposed on the beach would soon be washed away.
ReplyDeleteWell it soon turned out that sea levels weren't rising quickly enough so the western environmentalists (I recall Greenpeace but I might be wrong) came from Australia and pulled the tree down. Unfortunately they were caught in the act.
Can't find a link now (guests) but I'll try later.
In a similar vein we have the case of the Malaysian Environment Minister who is a major logger. I believe another was caught after Bali.
ReplyDeletePapua New Guinea's Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has been accused of lying after admitting he had financial ties to the country's controversial logging industry
ReplyDeleteThis would be the same Michael Somare who speaks in favour of Kyoto (perhaps also at Bali) and sells carbon credits
Nice people, tree huggers.
ReplyDelete"Nice people, tree huggers."
ReplyDeleteNot for the trees.