Leo in N E Illinois
The Professor
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Ah, I understand.
Andy Smith, of Golden Arrow, usually checks in with Forest Rangers, or BLM site managers, and finds out where the logging contracts are up for upcoming cuts. The vast majority of his collecting is from areas that will be logged, and anything too small to make dimensional lumber will be stripped, piled up and burned. In other words, where he collects, the trees are doomed, and will be dead and gone within a few months of his going in to collect them. But don't take my word for it, talk with Andy. Talk with Todd Schlafer, and the others. Find out how they get their trees. If it is by being just ahead of the logging crews, I see no moral issue with keeping a collected tree.
But I understand your hesitance. For example I will not buy wild collected orchids for my orchid collection. Or at least in the last 15 years or so, I have changed my stance on wild collected orchids. So I understand where you are coming from.
Andy Smith, of Golden Arrow, usually checks in with Forest Rangers, or BLM site managers, and finds out where the logging contracts are up for upcoming cuts. The vast majority of his collecting is from areas that will be logged, and anything too small to make dimensional lumber will be stripped, piled up and burned. In other words, where he collects, the trees are doomed, and will be dead and gone within a few months of his going in to collect them. But don't take my word for it, talk with Andy. Talk with Todd Schlafer, and the others. Find out how they get their trees. If it is by being just ahead of the logging crews, I see no moral issue with keeping a collected tree.
But I understand your hesitance. For example I will not buy wild collected orchids for my orchid collection. Or at least in the last 15 years or so, I have changed my stance on wild collected orchids. So I understand where you are coming from.
