went for a walk at lunch today, the park has been doing some trimming, this road is closed in the winter, what you cant see is these piles go on for about a half mile, its mostly quaking aspen, you are not allowed to remove wood from the park Wondering why they bucked it up and piled it next to the road like this, must be doing something with it
I know the feeling. There's a park about 1/2 mile from my house, and they had some ash cut down. They wouldn't let me take it, citing the EAB. It amazes me that they're going to let it rot in place because of a bug. Hell, if they're at the park, then they're already at my place.
they probably can't take it while they are on the clock but can come back on their own time while the rule makers are conveniently looking the other way. we had a big stink in our town where admins got their panties all knotted up because the low and middle class road crew peons cleaning up after a storm were getting perks and now they have to chip everything. Everything. Huge new chip truck and chipper. Not allowed to leave anything behind for anybody. They made the same stink over recyclable cans on the garbage trucks. Homeowners were keeping the 5 cent cans separate so they wouldn't get thrown out and admins made the garbage guys stop collecting them and making a couple meazly dollars while doing a sucky job.
Goofy people! If the tree is dead the bug is long gone. Folks around here learned a long time ago that the ban on moving ash is pointless.
Could be, don't know the laws in Maine. Here in the great state of New York, county of Erie, we are not trusted to have fires in county parks.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. Most state parks allow open fires(unless burn restrictions), but not all. I want to get out of here so bad, head north or southwest. Easier said than done though when most of my family is still here and the state issues my paycheck for 15 more years.
Live trees are being cut though. I've got a decent ash on my wood lot that is at a 45° angle. It's going to be dropped all the way pretty soon by me. I'm giving it to my buddy that lives a half mile down the road where EAB has hit all of his neighbors trees so I know I'm not spreading it to where it hasn't gone if there are EAB larvae in it, which I don't believe is the case. My wood lot is ~20 miles from my house. It's not with the risk to my many ash around my house that I treat with Bayer every year. Just in case.
Its Acadia National Park. They do operate two campgrounds in the park, not sure if they sell wood there, hard to imagine it would be worth the $ paying park employees to process firewood. The road is closed and gated. It is $100 fine for taking wood out of the park. Here is the odd part, campers in the park campgrounds may not take wood from the campground to burn at the campsites but may take wood from elsewhere in the park and transport it back to the campground to burn.
Acadia. Nice! My brother lives in Ellsworth,band works n the island. I try to get up there once a year. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
Well, I am an honest guy and I don't steal wood. But that there just looks like it should be scrounged, It's a National park so the wood belongs to the people right? The gov't will just let it rot, or pay some one to move it and tax us to pay them. Ok, I'm better now. I've vented.
This is a quote from the park website: "Cutting vegetation (e.g., tree branches) is prohibited. Large pieces of wood for campfires may be available in the campground; a hatchet is needed to split the wood into usable pieces." Maybe they'll stack the wood at the campgrounds for use on a FCFS basis?
Split a large piece of wood with a hatchet??? There is some one writing the rules who has never split wood.
