Trees Coming Down

Over the past week, beginning July 26th, 2010, the 4-acre field next to our home here in Rhinebeck, has been assaulted by huge chopping, digging and ripping machinery carried about the terrain on gigantic treaded tires with. Muscular, determined men wielding chain saws weave in and out of the machines, seeking out the trees marked with ugly spray paint Xs. We've known for years that one day they would arrive, but the economy and other factors has kept them at bay for more than a quarter of a century. Now they are here and the overgrown property that has been a home for animals like wild turkeys, deer, pileated woodpeckers, groundhogs and probably millions of insects and other small creatures. Huge trees are coming down, too, Most of them are gone now, the last of them coming down today. A few remain along our property line, but even most of those sat on the builder's property and are gone. We have lost ancient locust trees. We live on Locust Grove Road, but most are now gone. The property has been devastated. We are heartbroken, but we realize that our property was, long ago, heavily forested, so we can't really get too high on our horses about this. However, we do feel compassion for all the creatures who now must find new habitat. Those who have survived the devastation.

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Film & Animation

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• deforestation
• urbanization
• elwood
• elwood smith
• elwood h. smith
• Rhinebeck New York
• village
• change
• trees

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This is to let you Rhinebeckian's know that our village is changing each new day ever since the Clinton wedding, let alone more housing going up in Locust Grove..!!!!! I'm sorry to say it will never be the same. The rest of the world knows how rural Rhinebeck looks and has to check us out.