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 800-year-old Tree Poached From Park
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Kid Charlemagne
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 Posted - 05/17/2012 :  10:51 PM  Show Profile  Reply to this posting
I'm not a big fan of simply posting these Debbie Downer news stories, but with an election year coming up in BC, it's worth noting that the dwindling park ranger numbers as mentioned in the article seem to coincide with the current Liberal Party's time in power. Anyway, it's a damn shame.

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120517/bc_ancient_tree_chopped_down_120517/20120517?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

MatthewBaldwin
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Burnaby, BC
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 Posted - 05/17/2012 :  11:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wow that is messed up.. Those people are as bad as the people that break into cars at trail heads.
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Kid Charlemagne
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 Posted - 05/17/2012 :  11:05 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You know what, the type of person that breaks into cars at a trailhead almost always has some sort of socioeconomic or mental health issue that helps to explain their behaviour, not excuse it, just explain it. The pricks that did this are just plain scum. I think this deserves at least ten times the punishment one should get for breaking into a car. There is no insurance to cover this.

cambium
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 Posted - 05/17/2012 :  11:15 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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alpalmer
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ALBANY, OR
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 Posted - 05/18/2012 :  3:17 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Similar tree poaching has been happening in Olympic National Park in Washington State. Thieves look for isolated, low-visit areas and take cedar shake-bolts. It's much the same situation as the metal thievery problem. Without a "buyer" there would be no market so there is profit being made by some small shake mill and seller somewhere. They aren't just cutting it for firewood.

skeletalmachine
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Surrey, BC
Canada

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 Posted - 05/18/2012 :  4:07 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Tree poaching for cedar shakes is nothing new. Another place they steal cedar blocks is FSR bridges.
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Aqua Terra
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru

Surrey Hole, BC
Canada

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 Posted - 05/18/2012 :  7:28 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've seen the bridgework done on several occasions
That is messed up, nothin like a shifting deck with
Loose cables and 1/2 beams spanning as you drive across a raging creek
Punishment would be best suited to taking a vandals limb
Or private parts ??
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