If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?  We might - if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
 

The tree this worker is hard at work on once belonged to Flat Rock Forests Trust.  I'd rather still have the tree than whatever we supposedly got in its place.

Notice they didn't call it the Manuka Forest.  No wonder!  Those are PINE trees.

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