Jay

Chris, of course you are correct... I could go back and find it burnt or destroyed or even missing by another... BUT...I hope I will not.

To use the 'excuse' I better take it before someone else does it in is an easy way to justify almost anything... but it is poor logic. Someone has to have faith that good will triumph over evil etc..... For that ancient tree to have survived this long means it has survived and I should give it the respect it deserves.....

As rockm implied [with permission] a tree off the beaten path is a collection possibility --- one on the side of a trail probably shouldn't be.

(Please note the following is not my true feelings but a thought taken to the extreme)
Or... should we go around beating up drug addicts and take their money... hey it will only happen anyway, and better I should do it than another junky... probably a (very) bad example...but when does rationalization go to far.....

Jay

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