I took these photos while DH drove us to our sons for Easter yesterday. The state has hired a contractor to reclaim the sides of the highway after 40+ years of tree growth has taken over the safety zone on the sides and in the middle. They have been cutting a 83 mile stretch of the I for a couple of months now.
This is a picture of the trees that have been cut and waiting to be either delimbed and sent for lumber or to make paper with. The trees are used for making paper, fire wood, log homes and the limbs and smaller trees are chipped for bio mass for the industrial burners in the area. On the news the other night the contractor said they take out around a 100 loads of chipped brush every day.
This picture is of them moving the trees to the roadside to be readied for loading onto trucks.
This one shows how the traffic is moved to just one lane as they chip it onto the big box trucks.
I was hoping to catch the deer eating, but DH was driving too fast for my camera to focus..so just got the downed trees again. On Wednesday I saw over 25 deer along that 50 mile section eating the trees...they were cutting the trees down and the deer were eating off the tops as soon as they were setting the trees on the snow covered ground. This winter has been truly hard on our wildlife. The cutters are making them some well needed food, but they are being stuck and killed continuously all day and night long. They now have flashing signs up just before the areas where the most deer are. Have seen many of them dead on the side of the highway over the last month.
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Wow! You have some great pictures! Still have snow, I see, but some blue sky out there. Am sending warm springy thoughts your way! Take care.
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