This Really Ticked Me Off - Help Me Stop It

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I love to be outdoors, I love the variety in nature. I hate what some people do to destroy it for the rest of it. There is nothing wrong with using natural resources, but wasting and defacing is wrong.

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very peacock with wilderness innovation I'm here with something that's really ticked me off today and I just want to get it off my chest and you know just just put in my two cents about this thing and try to solve the problem and hopefully you guys out there tell people around you the same thing but but I'm definitely not a tree hugger I mean I've got stuff like this that I've cut up and that although these are these poles for this Carper got for some trees that had the beetle anymore and we're dying trees that the Forest Service had cut down and we just cut off the tips for some straight poles but but nonetheless I I'm not you know if I if I need to utilize something I'm not afraid to utilize things out of the forest right of nature but I try not to do things where I waste them but I just want to show you something at this campsite that is pretty irritating

there's just they just I'd just dirt road to get into here and there's no no services at all but it's really nice because it gives you a lot of privacy that you wouldn't have at a regular campground so the thing that aggravates me is people tear up these trees in here and now you have trees that you know some beautiful groves of trees to camp in but you know eventually going to die because of all the abuse these trees have taken from I won't call them campers I don't know what they are abusers of some kind let me show you some of the damage and maybe I'll tick you off as much that does mean now this tree all these trees I'm going to show you right here in our in our little camp area and we didn't do it and you notice look all these trees are just drizzling all the all the SAP and everything from all the damage that's been done but people hacked these are a little bit older injuries but you can still see some of the hatchet marks and stuff in some of the aging see even some fairly fresh hatchet marks right here on this one and this whole thing right here was just chopped out of this tree and then this whole area over here was damaged and then we've got some insect damage into there now but you look up here and you see this tree is just bleeding soft like crazy all these hatchet marks there and there and there and there there there here here I mean and even into this wood that's trying to heal here we've got a bunch of new hatchet marks in here I've just it's like somebody had nothing to do but just stand there the hatchet and chopped things and it's a very irritating let me show you this is a

turn near the fire where we've kind of got our stuff stacked but you can see all kinds of hatchet damage here even some fairly fresh stuff probably this year and here's an area where somebody just stood there and just chopped and chopped and chopped just chopping a hole into the tree for what reason I have no idea even up here and you see right here fresh hatch a line there or maybe that might even be a saw that somebody saw it into and here's a very bad part of this the same tree amazingly it's still alive somehow but look at there I'd get my I get my whole hand back inside of here with everything they've chopped into here and they've even tried to light the live tree on fire you can see and here chopped all this up all in to hear more chop marks here and here all kinds of chopping down in here now these these trees have just been tore up another one back here it's just been really hacked up you can see the so the stuff some of these injuries are old but I assume it's probably the same kind of stuff then going on you come around here and you see the hatchet marks into here and here pull up through here and it's just it's pitiful now here's here's some more this is a one of the trees our hammocks are tied to and it's still alive amazingly enough but look look how much damage there is in here look at all those hatchet marks chopping in some that had some trees we see where where they've shot into them with guns and stuff and I think that's the case here there's another night if I remember to get to it we still see the bullet in it and it just exploded part of the tree out you see all the all the SAP and stuff running out of here and you see all up in here and there's lots of a lot of this area up high there's like somebody reached as high as they could and chopped with a hatchet some more little marks there's a hatchet line there just just some bad stuff going on here now you know granted trees do get disease and damage on their own as well but here's more hatchet marks here and here there's just a lot of abuse in this area now this is one of the large one of the larger trees in our campsite area here but it really provides so much shade and and and shelter and everything here very nice large tree beautiful tree but you see somebody's hacked away the bark and then got down in here to the SAP wood and everything and started chopping into that and now you get a large tree like this and start hacking into it there's some more damage here looks fairly fresh this might even be this year then come around to this side of the tree and just look at all the this thing is just stick you love a SAP running down through here from all the just when you really start looking in there just chop marks everywhere all over the place in this tree and it's just just really been then hacked up let me show you a couple more here ok this is some old damage here you can see still some of the old hatchet marks and up here into here a lot of old hatchet marks down into here you can see see these like this and down like this and consequently there's been a lot of damage this tree got insects into there now stuff like that some more chopping I don't I really don't understand it why somebody just chops for the heck of chopping here's another one here they've made a deep gash with a hatchet and all the SAP that's bleeding out of the tree down here and you've got all kinds of marks into here now you can see there's this tree has a lot of insect damage and I'm not I'm not sure if that was perhaps caused due to the damage from all the chopping but most of the insect damage I can see to the tree is in the areas where the chopping has occurred the sea is just loaded with chop marks just everywhere like somebody just had nothing better to do than to just chop and chop and chop but like I say this has all become barren now and the insects alluring in and this is a tree that's perhaps more than a maybe around 100 feet tall and more chopping into here and you know you see from all this you know it's probably not going to be long a lot of the trees that are so beautiful and make such a nice camp area are going to be gone due to the negligence of people so this is Perry peacock with wilderness innovation please don't chop the trees up yourself needlessly don't this is this is not just negligence or whatever this is this is this is wasting and squandering the natural resources there's no practical use for this kind of activity

we're not gaining anything from it and you know if you ever see any of this going on you know do your part to try to stop that kind of activity make sure you know anybody you're around that can appear that they know that this is not acceptable behavior and let's try to preserve our resources the best we can I know probably everybody that watches our videos enjoys being out in the wilderness and out in the wilds and don't like to see beautiful places all hacked up and and wind up being areas that are desolate and ugly and and all that sort of thing so this is my little this might to bitch for however long this takes this little video but I wanted to show you some of what goes on I'm sure you've seen it too but just kind of a little reminder that we all have to do our part in training others train the next generation train the young people hopefully you know Scouts and other young people are kids grandkids neighbors whoever used the resources wisely you know we like to have a fire we like to cut it down a dead tree or whatever and sod up and use it in the fire but don't don't just hack up all the life threes and everything for just because you're bored get a new hobby

Perry peacock wilderness innovation take care of nature and enjoy it while you're out like we do have a great day