Posted on 03/28/2015 1:36:07 AM PDT by grundle
JACKSON, N.J. (AP) — A theme park plans to cut down more than 18,000 trees for the construction of what it says will be the largest solar farm in New Jersey.
Six Flags Great Adventure says the facility will generate 21.9 megawatts, or enough to power about 3,100 homes, and capable of meeting all of the park's needs.
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Not to mention they are terrific lightning rods. My neighborhood was one of those that was created with minimal tree removal. I cut all of the pines off my property and have culled the water oaks to a manageable distance from the house. The biggest problem with trees so close to the houses is that a rule of thumb is the roots extend out as far as the coverage of the branches. Most have no idea just how destructive the roots are to concrete foundations.
In western pine Beatle does not survive in NH. That infestation does not come east of CO or the Dakota’s. It has really only been an issues with Lodgepole Pine and Ponderosa Pine. It has also pretty much run its course. All the Lodgepole in interior BC has been wiped out.
I know because I am a lumber broker.
Around here we have Eastern White Pine. It is the same species as Idaho White Pine, pinus strobus. Also known as The Kings pine because they were all owned by King George and were only to be cut for use as masts for his Royal Navy.
Per Algore, those 18000 trees have souls like people, but they don’t vote, so screw em.
They are prevalent here in Georgia. I lost quite a few trees because of them.
Since I live in the Area you’re talking about I’ve always wondered why so many of the trees are like you described. I’m originally from Ohio so I figured it was something about the stones in NJ as I’ve never heard of “Coppiced”.
In fact, I have a “5 tree” Oak on my property that is probably 6 feet at the base that splits into 5 18”-24” trunks and I’ve always wondered how it got that way.
Ron Dupont, a local author and owner at the HL general store wrote a book on the History of Vernon. http://www.amazon.com/Vernon-Township-NJ-Images-America/dp/0738511102 It has pictures showing the area completely denuded of trees. What a difference it is compared to today.
No good do gooders at it again.
I hope they use solar powered chain saws? Oh, and hybrid logging trucks to haul the lumber out.
You can’t blame “NJ luck” when they’re cutting down 18,000 trees to make NJ a better place.
That is my all time favorite lefty loon video! It makes me cry everytime i watch it. From laughing so hard.
This was done by rivers so the charcoal could be transported to the forge. Or if the iron smelter was built by the trees, then to transport the iron.
Iron production was shifted to The Colonies because too many of the easy trees had been cut down in England to make charcoal for iron production
Saranac Lake is beautiful; the odd thing is that people living in that area are considered “living in the park” (and that isprobably why they can’t do as they please). I hike south of there, in Ringwood/Sterling Forest/Harriman/Bear Mtn. State Parks; the state doesn’t own the land on which the private properties sit.
Those policies will prevent any economic recovery in that area.
NH's treeless acreage was called a "Rock Farm". I suspect the land was shovel-ready for success, but farming and erosion brought rocks to the surface.
The expression was “New Hampshire is 84% trees and the rest is under water.” That's changed, with the building of hundreds of storage warehouses that require treeless landscapes.
The difference today is amazing; one of the prerequisites for operating forges/furnaces by iron mines was inexhaustible wood supply, and they meant it. The properties purchased by Peter Hasenclever, the Parrott brothers (who invented & produced the gun of the same name for the Civil War), and others were massive because of that requirement.
On the NY side of the border you’ll see many trees like that as well. I envy your proximity to those areas, I drive 45 minutes north to get to the closest ones.
Obscene
In the area I’m describing, the forest, mines, and forges/furnaces were all in the same area; the rivers (in this case, the Hudson River) were used to transport the finished product/iron. The iron mining lasted until late in the 19th century (in NJ into the early 20th century); lower production costs, and higher supply of ore, out by the Great Lakes doomed the industry here.
This is NJ; they will save money by using 50,000 illegals with butterknives.
18,000+ Trees THEN Six Flags files for Chapter 11???
I am glad you know the history of this important technology!!! New Jersey must have been full of trees same as Pennsylvania which as you know means William Penn’s forest.
Penn’s Woods = Penn’s Sylvania
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*****The whole NE was and is full of trees due to natural rainfall
insane
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