Cut Your Own (revisited)

At this time of the year, people pull out their handsaws and the trees grow nervous. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE

HURRICANE HELENE WROUGHT HAVOC on the North Carolina tree farms that provide a quarter of our Yule saplings.

And now, your Christma$ budget is a Helene victim, as well.

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As taxpayers, we own our National Parks. But not the trees in them, evidently.

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Watch out! In the forest, you are the meat course at an apex predator’s holiday feast.

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There are other impediments in the Christmoose-tree forest, as well.

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Don’t kid yourself. Trees are sentient. And vindictive.

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Do you really understand how those cinching straps work?

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There are alternatives to cut-your-own, of course.

Originally published in the Colorado Sun.

“When Mother Trees—the majestic hubs at the center of forest communication, protection, and sentience—die, they pass their wisdom to their kin, generation after generation, sharing the knowledge of what helps and what harms, who is friend or foe, and how to adapt and survive in an ever-changing landscape. It’s what all parents do.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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