The suburb of Gresham in Portland Oregon has been plagued by some sort of anti-eco lumberjack ...
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| Gresham Tree Attacks |
.... who has been cutting down trees - around 700 trees in the area and counting for no apparent reason.
The nutter, doesn't take the wood, they just fell the trees, causing $250,000 (£200,000) worth of material damage and untold ecological damage to the suburb for well over a year now. Ecologist, Mike Wallace, says whoever is doing this, is using a hand saw or a bow saw.
“We found a lot of blades that have been pinched in the actual wood itself and saw the individual just has more blades on hand so they just keep cutting,” says Wallace. “A lot of times a bow saw can get through this in about 5-10 minutes. It’s pretty quick, these are sharp blades. This is somebody that comes in quick but the individuals also spending hours in the field cutting these trees”
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| Damaged Trees |
Although he's been spotted on camera, not one person has come forward to identify the man, so his attacks continue unabated seemingly preferring trees along a segment of the Springwater park trail between the Seventh Street Bridge and Towle Avenue, and cutting bigger trees as time has gone by.
As of this post, he has not been caught and the carnage continues ..... undoing the hard work of decades in a few minutes.
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