Unpleasant Discovery
Jul. 21st, 2003 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omimouseSome friends of ours came over yesterday. D and her sister L, and L's little. They brought someone that Dragon and Ebon knew with them, K.
All happy and good, especially when Reanna and Louis came down from Nashville with groceries for us. (Thankyouthankyouthankyou)
So, Catchild, Ebon, Louis, K, and I go out to show K around the property.
When we hit the slope up the ridge, we saw the signs of heavy machinery, and missing and felled trees. Lots of missing and felled trees. One of the fences had been pulled down, and when we got to the ridge, we saw a lot more of the same.
The ridge used to be heavily forrested. Now it looks like clear-cutters have been through, and it's blantantly obvious that it's not storm damage.
We've lost two cedar groves, and a third is badly damaged. The trees that Warin and I were handfasted under; the trees that *witnessed* and *guarded* our handfasting are no longer there; the ridgetop looks and feels like it's been raped.
We own the mineral and lumber rights to this land - all of the mineral and lumber rights. We gave *no one* permission to cut *anything* on this land. Granted, part of it was the guy who's got the cows on our land making it easier to bushhog an area for us. Catchild told him that we *do* have plans for the trees on our property, and that he just screwed those plans up. She also told him that he needed permission from the family before taking down *anything* else on the property.
That was a miscommunication, but that only accounts for one of the cedar groves.
To say the the family is enraged is an understatment. I think that we're filing a police report over this; the family was at least very strongly leaning that way last night.
Feel free to offer advice on how to proceed; we want the people who did this found.
All happy and good, especially when Reanna and Louis came down from Nashville with groceries for us. (Thankyouthankyouthankyou)
So, Catchild, Ebon, Louis, K, and I go out to show K around the property.
When we hit the slope up the ridge, we saw the signs of heavy machinery, and missing and felled trees. Lots of missing and felled trees. One of the fences had been pulled down, and when we got to the ridge, we saw a lot more of the same.
The ridge used to be heavily forrested. Now it looks like clear-cutters have been through, and it's blantantly obvious that it's not storm damage.
We've lost two cedar groves, and a third is badly damaged. The trees that Warin and I were handfasted under; the trees that *witnessed* and *guarded* our handfasting are no longer there; the ridgetop looks and feels like it's been raped.
We own the mineral and lumber rights to this land - all of the mineral and lumber rights. We gave *no one* permission to cut *anything* on this land. Granted, part of it was the guy who's got the cows on our land making it easier to bushhog an area for us. Catchild told him that we *do* have plans for the trees on our property, and that he just screwed those plans up. She also told him that he needed permission from the family before taking down *anything* else on the property.
That was a miscommunication, but that only accounts for one of the cedar groves.
To say the the family is enraged is an understatment. I think that we're filing a police report over this; the family was at least very strongly leaning that way last night.
Feel free to offer advice on how to proceed; we want the people who did this found.
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Date: 2003-07-21 10:04 am (UTC)