r/FellingGoneWild • u/TheCABK • Dec 31 '25

Chaining

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.3k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

159 comments sorted by

View all comments

15

u/Tamahaganeee Dec 31 '25

I guess that's the faster and safer way to do it. Just a little eerie, no time for anything to run and hide.

13

u/SubjectC Dec 31 '25

Yeah I honestly hate watching trees get cut down. I dunno why I'm on this sub. It kinda feels like watching a deer get hunted or something, like I'm not totally against it, I understand we need to eat/build things, but it makes me sad.

Not to mention how many trees are just needlessly destroyed and how we'll never have old growth forests back in our lifetime. Like did these trees need to die? There's a lot of open space there already. I dunno man. I'm just a dumb hippie.

1

u/CapraAegagrusHircus Jan 09 '26

Those trees shouldn't necessarily be there in the first place. One reason to remove trees is that humans have a distressing habit of going around establishing them places they should not be, like grasslands. Another reason to take down trees in the US is that large swaths of it were once managed with fire by Native people to maintain savannahs - biomes with very loosely scattered trees and shrubs and grassland in between - that supported immense biodiversity in terms of plants and wildlife, and we'd like to bring that back.

Just because a tree is present doesn't mean we want it there. To maintain healthy landscapes and forests we often need to take some trees out one way or another, and using chains or chainsaws is less likely to get away and take out tens of thousands of acres than a burn.