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TexasTowelie

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Mon May 20, 2019, 03:12 AM May 2019

High timber prices lure poachers to cut down Ohio trees

LONDONDERRY — Walking through his Ross County tree farm, Jim Savage stopped and looked down.

“There it is,” he said, pointing to the jagged tree stump.

In the grass lay the remains of a massive black walnut tree.

About 50 yards away along Salt Creek were the spindly limbs of two other fallen trees.

The trees were not victims of natural threats such as disease or weather, but rather poachers.

Read more: https://www.ohio.com/news/20190514/high-timber-prices-lure-poachers-to-cut-down-ohio-trees/1
(Akron Beacon Journal)

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High timber prices lure poachers to cut down Ohio trees (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
Damn. Some humans are the bane. democratisphere May 2019 #1
Dominionists think "stewardship" means "rape and pillage the Earth". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2019 #2
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