Clear Cutting on Route 93

Eagle · 05-10-2010, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

After further review I'm not buying the shadowing effect reason.I don't really have an alternative reason though.

The government needs money to plug the budget hole.
Selling the timber maybe?

jmen24 · 05-10-2010, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Eagle

The government needs money to plug the budget hole.
Selling the timber maybe?

After just having trees taken down on my property last week, the ends don't justify the means.

Had 22 total trees removed, filled a logging truck to the top with timber used as a credit towards the work. Did not pay for the entire thing. The logistics of logging a median on 93 would be mind blowingly expensive and no amount of timber would ever create a break even point let alone a money maker.

BUT the state has been known to act before thinking, so you may have the motive correct.

I am telling you, Toll Booth!!!

Rattlesnake Guy · 05-10-2010, 10:46 PM

We drove by on Sunday. I got both more perplexed and more angry as we went along. I tried and tried to build a reason for the ugly and seemingly random appearance. Every theory was abandoned. Why a State that relies on tourism would give the front sidewalk such a bad hedge clipping is really confusing.

upthesaukee · 05-11-2010, 07:31 AM

The hatchet job done on Rte 11 in Alton from Minge Cove area to Mt Major area.
I would think that the root system for the trees and bushes would help prevent erosion, and now I am not sure if heavy rains and heavy snow melt off may cause more erosion in that area.
What amazes me is that the the scenic views along that section of highway on the lake side are now blocked by the rising tree canopy, and even the scenic view itself in Gilford overlooking the broads is being overgrown by the tree canopy. Perhaps a little selective cutting (not a clear cut like American Loggers

) would open up those views and return the scenic NH look.

Jonas Pilot · 05-11-2010, 07:44 AM

It makes me wonder who makes these decisions.

05-11-2010, 07:31 AM	#4
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05-10-2010, 10:46 PM	#3
Rattlesnake Guy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,254 Thanks: 423 Thanked 366 Times in 175 Posts	We drove by on Sunday. I got both more perplexed and more angry as we went along. I tried and tried to build a reason for the ugly and seemingly random appearance. Every theory was abandoned. Why a State that relies on tourism would give the front sidewalk such a bad hedge clipping is really confusing.

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05-11-2010, 07:44 AM	#5
Jonas Pilot Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire is my home, 24-7-365 Posts: 1,686 Thanks: 1,047 Thanked 336 Times in 189 Posts	It makes me wonder who makes these decisions.