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Whidbey
Walks
Mailing address:
PO Box 492
Clinton, WA 98236
Shop located at: 2326 Newman Road at Highway 525,
Freeland, WA
Phone:
360-321-4950
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| Friday March
23 2007 01:
51 PM |
On Saturday, March 24th, the Saturday Walking Club will be visiting the Dorothy Cleveland Trail at Possession Point.
This trail goes up hill through old, big leaf maples, and stops at the ridge running along the top of the hill where there is a bench and an overview through the trees to the water.
Speaking of the big leaf maples, we live in an area of big trees. Along Deception Pass, where once one could see the water out beyond the woods, now Doug Firs have grown up and obscured the view.
On the Dorothy Cleveland Trail, much the same thing has happend. A very nice viewing bench sits at the top of the trail, facing what was once a lovely view to the south,over the water, before the maples below began reaching their full size.
So the question, should the trees be cut to enhance the view opportunities for humans?
" The mandate is both for recreation and for preservation of habitat. Balancing those two competing goals becomes very difficult. Which is more important, the visitor experience or allowing natural processes to continue?" is how Marianne Edain phrases the question.
What do you think? Please feel free to comment, by clicking below, to share your ideas.
Comment by Jan Hughes:
Left up to me, we would never cut no trees nohow nowhere not ever. I am genetically, rigidly, unchangeably programmed to be a tree hugger lover. In the Clinton neighborhood, Gedney View Lane off Humphrey Road, a first-sighting-hummingbird alighted at the peak of a 50-foot fir on April Fool's Day. Popper the Pomeranian entertained the Ala Spit Adventure Saturday March 31st. He was in Diana's temporary care and showed bouncing agility climbing over driftwood and prancing along sand trails. He even sat quietly when four of us became bumps on a log, telling tales to one another while others of the group ranged far up the beach until they were specks in the distance.
Further Comment:
In looking at the news today, unfortunately for members of the current administration, some of the tree cutting that has been allowed at public expense in the national forests will have to go back to the "bad old days" of needing to go through an environmental impact assessment first.... Perhaps we're finally regaining our sanity on some of these issues.
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