Prolific Growth

Trees and understory are having a great growth spurt thanks to the wet spring in the area. When someone does a tree ring analysis in a few decades, they will ask ... "What happened in 2011?

Vandalism continues unabated. I placed cables with locks across my entry points to keep the 4 wheelers out. A trespasser put a bullet hole in it but it held. Unfortunately, I cannot unlock it either.



Roads continue to develop deeper potholes. So far, no problems for smaller vehicles, but larger construction and logging trucks will have increasing problems. During the logging of last summer, one of the big trucks broke an axle. The driver told me he would never come down in here again.