…even though Hoosiers have protested it AND A PHILANTHROPIST HAS OFFERED MORE MONEY TO NOT CUT THEM DOWN!!  Unfreakingbuhlievable!

From Hoosier Environmental Council –– the governor has accepted money to destroy more trees in Indiana.  We need to hold on to what we have — trees are life!   They give us our oxygen to breathe — we have seen an increase in asthma cases due to toxic air and the destruction of our once prolific forests.   They give us shelter from the sun.  They give us food.  They give the birds, squirrels, and raccoons, a home and food.

As long as there are abandoned buildings still standing, it should be a crime to cut down any more timber. Every tree is precious and should be seen as a valuable, life-giving resource.

I was sickened when I learned that a huge maple tree that had to be at least 200 years old, and probably older than that, was cut down from my former home.  This beautiful huge tree grew in a natural way — not cut to be picture perfect pretty.  It had a thick trunk with branches that looked like fingers reaching up to God.  Every Fall, it took me three days of raking to get all the leaves up — but I loved it.  The dead leaves aided my compost pile, giving me rich, dark earth in return.

And the people who bought my house for $30,000 below market value cut down this precious, beautiful, life-giving tree.  They also hacked off the bottoms of the row of evergreens I had planted.  I am surprised that the evergreen I had planted the first Christmas we were there hasn’t been hacked up, too.  I’m sure they’ll get to that eventually.