We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.

First I have to get strong again and then I'll be back down to Needles, California, to keep my streak alive of shooting my age.

I've never had a bug problem before the pine beetle problem on my trees.

بعد أيام اكتشفتُ أن الشجرَ كالبشر ، حين تُضيَّع الفرصة الأولى للقائك بهم .. حين تترك أحدهم خلفك ، قد لا تعثر علية ، ثانية ، أمامك

Even viewed conservatively, trees are worth far more than they cost to
plant and maintain. The U.S. Forest Service's Center for Urban Forest
Research found a ten-degree difference between the cool of a shaded
park in Tucson and the open Sonoran desert. A tree planted in the
right place, the center estimates, reduces the demand for air
conditioning and can save 100 kilowatt hours in annual electrical use,
about 2 to 8 percent of total use. Strategically planted trees can
also shelter homes from wind, and in cold weather they can reduce
heating fuel costs by 10 to 12 percent. A million strategically
planted trees, the center figures, can save $10 million in energy
costs. And trees increase property values, as much as 1 percent for
each mature tree. These savings are offset somewhat by the cost of
planting and maintaining trees, but on balance, if we had to pay for
the services that trees provide, we couldn't afford them. Because
trees offer their services in silence, and for free, we take them for
granted.

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth