Gentlemen, Start Your Chainsaws

16 Replies to “Gentlemen, Start Your Chainsaws”

1. Because there is sumptin they’re are not sayin’….
   Here in Morontario there are some noises about needing a “permit” to cut a tree….
   Stupid tree huggers…..

2. If I recall correctly their is no part of Manitoba that has a climate zone higher than 3 – perhaps some urban micro-climes would reach zone four.
   Again if I recall correctly, no species of tree that can live in that cold a zone has a life expectancy beyond 100 or so years at the very extreme (White spruce – maybe 150?). So why would one bother protecting them – in most cases they will be dead twenty of so years after they have grown large enough to be considered protectable.

3. I correct myself – American elms can live north of 200 years – not sure if they could do that in the colder
   Limit if its range which would most certainly be Manitoba.

4. Not surprising! It’s never about trees or environment or whatever – but permits, fines, regulations and more government employees.

5. My bit to the Brandon Red Sun….
   “The designation process would also consider any landowner concerns before a tree receives heritage tree status, the province says.”
   But if this designation is for “crown” land,why the need to contact landowners? Or does the bill actually apply to ALL trees in Manitoba, and the reporter can’t get the facts straight,or just didn’t bother researching the bill?

6. Fired up my chainsaw (love that blue two stroke exhaust!) and took down 3 Douglas Firs and a huge pine – all were at least 100ft tall, but took only 50 years to grow. Lots of great firewood for the next 5 winters or so.
   But this is B.C. and while its’ a little slower than wheat, I consider trees simply another crop. Leave them too long and root rot sets in – a decent wind and they blow down in a direction you might not want.
   I believe in Vancouver, you not only need a permit to cut ANY tree, you are also restricted to planting ‘indigenous species’ – nothing exotic like an elm or black locust!

7. You nailed it Max!

8. Trees?
   How about almost-born children?
   The jackasses who proposed this should be planted in a spot and made to stand there for fifty years or so living on rainwater and whatever wanders by. Each Sunday, show them videos from the local abortion clinic.

9. Just a tip from an old dog who has been through this crap in Ontario: let no one – hikers, birdwatchers or berry-pickers – onto your lands.
   All it takes is for one do-gooder to report your tall pines, frogs eggs, or wild ginseng to the MNR or local Conservation Authority, and your lands become officially ‘protected’ quicker than you can say Dildo McDinky.
   A landowner who wants to get a glimpse of what he’s up against should just Google ” Environmental Registry Eco-Region 6E”. Old fields, scrubland, puddles, mature forest, fields where geese feed, etc. – practically everything you own that isn’t cultivated land will be eventually be ‘saved’ by the eco-parasites and their government puppets. So, you damned right you better start your chainsaws – and your cats, skidders, excavators, etc.
   And here in Ontario, our farm organizations haven’t raised one useful protest against this massive pending theft of private property.

10. Heritage tree? In Manitoba? WTF? I saw a towering 30 foot oak once. The Elms are nice but are rapidly disappearing. Mind you they have some of those fancy poplars and willows. Do any politicians actually read legislation? Can they read?

11. We used to have an “enormous” balsam growing near our house when I was a kid in Manitoba.(1950’s) It was roughly 15 inches DBH, and about sixty feet tall.
    People used to comment that it was the biggest tree they’d ever seen.
    Then I moved to BC.

12. I smell agenda 21 at work here. This law tests the water of public reaction. If no one complains, watch this “initiative” creep into regional and municipal legislating on trees on private land.
    As it is now designating portion of crown forest out of public trust to the keeping of a shadowy UN resource NGO is illegal – crown forest is a public resource we all own as citizens, for our use and benefit, held in trust by our provincial government. They can not give away jurisdiction over it, or use of it, to any other regulating body or NGO or corporation without our approval or fair remunerative rent payment to the public treasury. This is, in pith and substance, theft of public property – but it’s for such a good cause isn’t it? They’ll never miss a few trees, and never go against such a noble effort. Besides, we thought we had obliterated the concepts of ownership and property right in this era of global collectivist regulating. We have worked hard to blur the distinction between “common wealth” and wealth redistribution by authority.
    It’s such a little thing isn’t it?

13. In Calgary “Protected Trees” are labelled. Can’t say the chosen are distinct. (as in society?)
    If a tree falls in the city, everbody sees….
    h/t Bruce Cockburn, Joni M.

14. Then don’t fell it, use glyphosate.

15. In Calgary,the trees are not only labelled,they have an ‘estimated value’ attached to their protected notice.
    The estimates are down to the penny,as in $3,826.72. I’ve always wondered if I should strip a few leaves off and then reported the dastardly deed if someone would come out and change the value.

16. On the subject of your working hard associated with felling trees and shrubs and also reducing these people directly into lumber, there is simply just no replacement for chainsaws.