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To: ManyMoose who wrote (336151)	11/28/2009 12:47:53 PM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793966

Check out the damage these green morons did. Nice little managed forest. They were going to do some thinning and sell the wood for the school district. Jerk huggers went in and drove spikes all over the woods. Now they're going to have to mow the whole woods down. BACKUS, Minn. — Investigators are trying to determine who drove 6-inch nails into hundreds of red pine trees near Backus. They think the vandals might have thought they were saving the trees from logging. But if that was their plan, it backfired. The stand is thinned every 10 to 15 years. About 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. The money would have benefitted the community and school district. But workers found pole barn nails pounded into more than 500 of the trees. Now the entire forest must be cut down due to safety concerns. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said that if a saw hit one of the nails, “it would explode like a gun going off” and could cause serious injury. A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered.