I just found a site with ropes in the trees wayyyy up, cutaways from the tarps and just about every branch that they could reach snapped back on the site. A pile of small branches under the maple. These are the same people that thought they could put 2 families on one site, because the sites are so big, and split the cost. Yup, that's why I made big sites. That would make me 400% dumber than your average business person. So that's a days worth of tree work and a monkey rental? Don't know what to do about the ropes; 2 guys move a picnic table under the tree and stand on it to tie them. Then they cut away at ground level, leaving the tree to strangle slowly.
Guidelines for Guests are given to new arrivals.
"6. Firewood may be purchased at the office. Do not break limbs or peel bark from live trees."
Tree pruning happens in the spring and the fall, when it is best for the tree, NOT in the summer at the convenience of the camper. Sites are big so that there is room for the trees too. Now I have a # of sharp points, some at eye height, and split branch stubs at the trunk. It is a visual signal for others to help themselves.
After time, all the trees will be denuded on the lower trunks. Privacy between sites will be gone. Tops will strangle when the tree grows around the rope and the tree becomes a 'danger' tree and has to be removed.
So much for it being a 'beautiful' place, as so many new arrivals and return clients say. It cannot be beautiful with everyone taking fire starter from live trees, and pruning as they see fit. That is well beyond the privilege afforded here with admission.
Doing the same thing in Algonquin Park would attach a $250 fine to each licence plate. $1000 in fines for taking liberty with trees that do not belong to the 'harvesters'. I could rent a cherry picker AND a monkey with a chainsaw for a day for that amount!
Guidelines for Guests are given to new arrivals.
"6. Firewood may be purchased at the office. Do not break limbs or peel bark from live trees."
Tree pruning happens in the spring and the fall, when it is best for the tree, NOT in the summer at the convenience of the camper. Sites are big so that there is room for the trees too. Now I have a # of sharp points, some at eye height, and split branch stubs at the trunk. It is a visual signal for others to help themselves.
After time, all the trees will be denuded on the lower trunks. Privacy between sites will be gone. Tops will strangle when the tree grows around the rope and the tree becomes a 'danger' tree and has to be removed.
So much for it being a 'beautiful' place, as so many new arrivals and return clients say. It cannot be beautiful with everyone taking fire starter from live trees, and pruning as they see fit. That is well beyond the privilege afforded here with admission.
Doing the same thing in Algonquin Park would attach a $250 fine to each licence plate. $1000 in fines for taking liberty with trees that do not belong to the 'harvesters'. I could rent a cherry picker AND a monkey with a chainsaw for a day for that amount!
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