Cutting down dead hazardous trees near roadways and powerlines (Page 2): Yes, it was pretty much the same here. Especially with the Pequot Tribe that was pretty much decimated in King...

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

Yes, it was pretty much the same here. Especially with the Pequot Tribe that was pretty much decimated in King Phillip's War. The Mohegans fared better as they aligned themselves with the English.
Just in case you're intersted here's the Seneca Tribe website.https://sni.org/

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Mr. B wrote:

Yes, it was pretty much the same here. Especially with the Pequot Tribe that was pretty much decimated in King Phillip's War. The Mohegans fared better as they aligned themselves with the English.
Just in case you're intersted here's the Seneca Tribe website.https://sni.org/

OMG!!! Thank you very much. I will pass the information on to my brothers. We were all born in Olean, NY and I see there is a group in Allegheny and Niagara. Any affiliation we might have would possibly come from one of those two. Very kind of you to pass on the information and I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Dennis

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

Dennis,
My pleasure. Good luck in your venture and have fun! I'll let you return the favor by showing me some Idaho streams conducive to wade fly fishing. I'm an addict. LOL! (Love your avatar!)
Alton

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Mr. B wrote:

Dennis,
My pleasure. Good luck in your venture and have fun! I'll let you return the favor by showing me some Idaho streams conducive to wade fly fishing. I'm an addict. LOL! (Love your avatar!)
Alton

You are more than welcome to come out and fish. I am not a good fly fisherman but do know of a few good places where I have found fish. I have any number of fly rods, waders and flies. I am just now starting to learn to tie my flies. I am pretty clumsy for a 78 year old guy but I have caught fish on flies before. I am in and out so give me some notice. You would be welcome.

My avatar is a few years old. I recently caught a few 3 pound rainbows from the Snake River and a 4 pound rainbow from the same place; not on flies but they are there. Wading would be in I am guessing 10+ feet of water. But I know of other places to take you.

Dennis

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

dennis2146 wrote:

You are more than welcome to come out and fish. I... (show quote)

Thank you Dennis. You're more than kind. My comment was a little tongue in cheek. As much as I'd love to I probably wouldn't have the opportunity to go. I used to travel to Montana and Alaska whenever possible to fish. Now I fish the upper Connecticut in New Hampshire on the Canadian border a couple times a year or western Maine and the rest of the year in eastern Connecticut. I started (clumsily) fly fishing in 1969 and got much better from mentors when my dad purchased a fly and gun shop in 1984. I became addicted then and never looked back. Plus I could buy at wholesale as long as I worked it off in the shop on weekends!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Mr. B wrote:

Thank you Dennis. You're more than kind. My commen... (show quote)

Sounds as if you have some great fly fishing opportunities already. It is up to you but my offer still stands. The airport if you want to fly out is almost literally across the main highway. I have a huge house and a freezer of elk, some buffalo, trout and normal foods.

I wish you well and tight lines,

Dennis

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

I don’t know what the problem is in Connecticut but in Missouri the utilities trim along their right of ways to keep falling limbs or trees from taking down the lines. About a month ago they came by and trimmed some limbs off of a couple trees in my yard.

That said, I would like to run one of those guys just once.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Mr. B wrote:

Don,
Thank you. The oaks are not the end of it. Now we've lost all the Ash trees to Emerald Ash Borer and as of last year our American Beech Trees are succumbing to Beech Leaf Nematodes. My forest land looks like a battlefield. But, since nature abhors a vacuum, something will fill in the voids left behind.
Alton

Yeah, Alanthus Trees.

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

dennis2146 wrote:

Sounds as if you have some great fly fishing opportunities already. It is up to you but my offer still stands. The airport if you want to fly out is almost literally across the main highway. I have a huge house and a freezer of elk, some buffalo, trout and normal foods.

I wish you well and tight lines,

Dennis

Dennis,
You had me at the elk, buffalo and trout! All meats I'm allowed to eat and never get enough of.

Thanks again. And I promise if I get back out your way I'll be in touch for sue.
Tight lines to you as well.
Alton

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

bikinkawboy wrote:

I don’t know what the problem is in Connecticut but in Missouri the utilities trim along their right of ways to keep falling limbs or trees from taking down the lines. About a month ago they came by and trimmed some limbs off of a couple trees in my yard.

That said, I would like to run one of those guys just once.

Oh, believe me the utilities trim trees out here, too. The live ones. The problem has been the sudden and catastrophic death of many oaks, many beeches, and virtually all the ash trees. Some of these oaks tower 85 feet. And many are just far enough off the road that the utilities won't touch them until they're a "hazard tree" and then only with landowner permission. And after being classified as hazard trees they go on what is now an extensive waiting list. Case in point, we had high winds last night and lost power due to one of those trees awaiting their turn to be removed.

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

RodeoMan wrote:

Yeah, Alanthus Trees.

Hopefully not. We're a long way from the cities where they appear to usually found. You do occasionally see one someone planted in a yard as an ornamental.
Most of my woodland will probably start filling in with more maple and black birch.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Mr. B wrote:

Dennis,
You had me at the elk, buffalo and trout! All meats I'm allowed to eat and never get enough of.

Thanks again. And I promise if I get back out your way I'll be in touch for sue.
Tight lines to you as well.
Alton

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Mr. B wrote:

Oh, believe me the utilities trim trees out here, ... (show quote)

That makes sense. Our Ash are dying right and left and much faster and sooner than they predicted. We don’t have Beech in northern Missouri so no problem there. Dutch Elm Disease has been killing elms for nearly a century yet there are still plenty of elms around because most live long enough to produce seeds. Just yesterday I saw ash that were maybe 3” dbh and too young to produce seeds. Ash may go the way of the American Chestnut.

Mr. B Loc: eastern Connecticut

bikinkawboy wrote:

That makes sense. Our Ash are dying right and left and much faster and sooner than they predicted. We don’t have Beech in northern Missouri so no problem there. Dutch Elm Disease has been killing elms for nearly a century yet there are still plenty of elms around because most live long enough to produce seeds. Just yesterday I saw ash that were maybe 3” dbh and too young to produce seeds. Ash may go the way of the American Chestnut.

There may be some isolated ashes that survive on their own. The Emerald Ash Borer may starve itself out of existence unless it finds an alternate host. There is also some research going on to develop tools for combatting the beetle. Here's the latest from the University of Minnesota:https://mitppc.umn.edu/news/entomopathogenic-fungi-may-be-key-biocontrol-emerald-ash-borer