Snow disappeared fast this year. A tree was blocking the state forest trail I ride on to exercise the dog. We have t done that in a couple months. First time was yesterday. Today I decided to remove the tree before the rest of the world wakes up and makes a mess of the forest going around it. Small dead oak and little maple stick that grew up in the wrong location It was nice to be able to drive in the woods again.
That's awesome you can take the ATV on state land like that to grab scrounges. I have miles and miles of trails in the national forest all around me that are open to snowmobiles during the winter but have no access during the non-snow months outside of walking or mountain biking. While I can understand the main reasons they don't allow OHRVs in the national forest (and idiots would tear the place up in no time), I just wish they had some kind of program where people could be granted access to take out dead and down trees from those areas rather than just letting everything rot away.
We have a several hundred acre woods nearby that a local family gave to the state after they were gone...it's almost all old growth and the trees in there are massive. The state built a couple mile long wooden walkway through there for the public (it can lay wet in there in places for a good part of the year) which the state maintains the walkway, but appears to ignore managing the woods, other than cutting anything that blocks the walkway...and even then, it's literally just a chunk out of the part laying on the walkway, repairs to the walkway, and done. It's such a crying shame to see those majestic hundreds of years old oaks and whatnot just laying there rotting...they'd make such awesome lumber...or at least a whole winters worth of heat for someone! But nope, just let r rot!
It will never happen. The elite know-nothing bureaucrats consider any kind of removal detrimental to the natural ecosystem. We're supposed to make believe human beings don't exist and the planet will be a perfect nirvana without our meddling(s). Unless of course we need to meddle for a wind generator or solar panel. Then it's OK.
