Comments on: Guest Column: Forest Preserve harvesting native endangered trees http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/02/08/guest-column-forest-preserve-harvesting-native-endangered-trees/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Thu, 16 May 2013 22:09:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gloria Maloney http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/02/08/guest-column-forest-preserve-harvesting-native-endangered-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 Gloria Maloney Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:39:26 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=35773#comment-4764 Thank you Mr. Castrey for making these observations and very good points. I believe a crime has been committed here and tried to get the Attorney General's office interested. Apparently, since we elected the board of commissioners, and they approved this idiocy, it isn't a crime? It was suggested that I seek to work with the district to plan what should be done with the preserves in the future. When you look at what has already been done, it seems to me that trying to work with the current board and employees would be futile. The board was new. I am guessing they trusted district employees to advise them. Refinancing, issuing bonds, replanting, blah, blah, blah....crap is probably behind this or a large part of this. It is about some people profiting, some how. It isn't about restoring prairie. "Restoring prairie" is the excuse. It is going to cost the taxpayers plenty. It already has. Can't the people have anything? Can we trust anybody in government? We can't even trust that a forest preserve district won't steal the forests. What can we do? These selfish individuals have robbed us, our children, and grandchildren of the enjoyment of the these forests. Thank you Mr. Castrey for making these observations and very good points.

I believe a crime has been committed here and tried to get the Attorney General’s office interested. Apparently, since we elected the board of commissioners, and they approved this idiocy, it isn’t a crime?

It was suggested that I seek to work with the district to plan what should be done with the preserves in the future. When you look at what has already been done, it seems to me that trying to work with the current board and employees would be futile.

The board was new. I am guessing they trusted district employees to advise them.

Refinancing, issuing bonds, replanting, blah, blah, blah….crap is probably behind this or a large part of this. It is about some people profiting, some how. It isn’t about restoring prairie. “Restoring prairie” is the excuse. It is going to cost the taxpayers plenty. It already has.

Can’t the people have anything? Can we trust anybody in government? We can’t even trust that a forest preserve district won’t steal the forests. What can we do?

These selfish individuals have robbed us, our children, and grandchildren of the enjoyment of the these forests.

]]> By: VeryModest http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/02/08/guest-column-forest-preserve-harvesting-native-endangered-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-4743 VeryModest Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:54:10 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=35773#comment-4743 Seems to me that this harvesting of trees in the forest preserves has been going on for a while now. When you first drive into Fuller FP the area to the left of the road across most of the front of the park has been thinned dramatically over the last several years. Also when driving next to Atwood Homestead FP the northwest section of the park along both Gleasman and Old River Roads has been thinned extensively of trees. You didn't used to be able to see into the golf course from this corner and now you can. This is an area of the park that is not part of the golf course but was just kind of wild. Just wondering if we do more research if we aren't going to find more harvesting of trees going on in other forest preserve parks that people haven't really noticed as of yet. I get the whole idea of trying to restore prairie but wouldn't it be easier to acquire vacant farm land that is already denude of trees and go from there? Another thing that keeps nagging at me at the clearing of the trees is are they going in and clearing out the stumps of the trees because that in and of itself has got to cost a huge amount of money when you stop to realize the number of trees that have been harvested. Waiting for the stumps to rot and become one with the earth again is going to take a very long time as this doesn't just happen over night. Someone(s) are making a killing off this harvest and it isn't the people of Winnebago Country. Seems to me that this harvesting of trees in the forest preserves has been going on for a while now. When you first drive into Fuller FP the area to the left of the road across most of the front of the park has been thinned dramatically over the last several years. Also when driving next to Atwood Homestead FP the northwest section of the park along both Gleasman and Old River Roads has been thinned extensively of trees. You didn’t used to be able to see into the golf course from this corner and now you can. This is an area of the park that is not part of the golf course but was just kind of wild. Just wondering if we do more research if we aren’t going to find more harvesting of trees going on in other forest preserve parks that people haven’t really noticed as of yet. I get the whole idea of trying to restore prairie but wouldn’t it be easier to acquire vacant farm land that is already denude of trees and go from there? Another thing that keeps nagging at me at the clearing of the trees is are they going in and clearing out the stumps of the trees because that in and of itself has got to cost a huge amount of money when you stop to realize the number of trees that have been harvested. Waiting for the stumps to rot and become one with the earth again is going to take a very long time as this doesn’t just happen over night. Someone(s) are making a killing off this harvest and it isn’t the people of Winnebago Country.

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