Cap,
I very much look forward to your new posts ... to learn and be informed.
But! I have to say this ... I hope this "standing tree" was a dead tree ...
I cut down a small standing tree to make a fire with,
In all my years as an outdoorsman ... from a boy, to this day ...
CUTTING DOWN LIVE TREES, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, IS AGAINST EVERYTHING I'VE EVER LEARNED AND TAUGHT OTHERS ABOUT THE
OUTDOORS ... UNLESS YOUR LIFE ABSOLUTELY DEPENDED ON IT. Fallen wood and DEAD trees, (as a last resort), is the proper
and responsible way to exist in the outdoors.
In all my outdoor exertions ... even in times of stress ... as in day long paddling in a cold rain, on a wilderness river, have I or
my companions EVER cut down LIVE trees. We've always existed, for days, on dead fall wood ... occasionally, coming upon a totally dead tree,
we would push it down and use it for fuel to cook on on and keep us warm.
Live trees are not to be used.
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