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A tree on private property affects more than just the owner. It is everyone's business what happens here.
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A County TREE ORDINANCE is not a radical idea...
Dawson County, Forsyth County, Gilmer County, Hall County, Union County, and many other surrounding counties in Georgia have ordinances that regulate tree removal.
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -Samuel Johnson
They said it was 'impossible' to have a Tree Ordinance in Lumpkin County.
For truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard grain, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20 New World Translation.
"All life on earth, our peaceful co-existence and our own well-being depends on intact ecosystems. Nature provides the necessary resources and our natural environment. We should value this generous gift." --Ecocide website.
Crazy....?
We are not 'crazy' to demand a tree ordinance: we'd be crazy to stand by and watch our Natural Heritage be destroyed and the homes of the wild animals be removed. Destroying natural habitats for any reason is the definition of insanity...
http://www.isa-arbor.com/education/resources/educ_TreeOrdinanceGuidelines.pdf
What if someone bulldozed your home? It would be a crime. That is what we are doing to animals' habitats; and it is not right.
Plant a Tree to replace one of the Trees lost in the clear cutting of Jay Bridge Road.There
Many old timers have expressed despair over their efforts to protect the trees in Lumpkin County. These are people who care, about Lumpkin County, about the animals, about our natural heritage, and about other human beings.
Ignoring their pleas for a tree ordinance is disrespectful. That so many old timers suffer emotionally over being ignored, for a good, and valiant cause, to lose hope, and be in despair, because developers, builders and those in their pockets want free and unfettered access to tree removal, for the sake of THEIR profit, is NOT RIGHT!!!
We now have a petition to get a tree ordinance in Lumpkin County.
Long Live Lumpkin County and Dahlonega; Tourist attraction, habitats for fish and wildlife, natural and historic history, something other than urban. People moved here to get away from it all; eventually they will have to move away from here, to get away from the blight that Dahlonega and Lumpkin is becoming. Eventually, tourists will skip Dahlonega, and keep on going, all the way to Blairsville, or Cleveland, Georgia.
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They replanted the 35 acres on Jay Bridge Road with tree seedlings that they plan to harvest in 35 years....does that matter to the animals who lived there, and who moved on, possibly to encroach upon human habitation? Will civilization as we know it even be here 35 years from now?
IT IS NOT RIGHT.
That ecocide – the destruction of ecosystems – is even a concept bespeaks a momentous change in industrial civilisation's relationship to the planet. To kill something, like Earth, presupposes that it is even alive in the first place. Today we are beginning to see the planet and all its subsystems as beings deserving of life, and no longer mere resource piles and waste dumps. As the realisation grows that we are part of an interdependent, living planet, concepts such as "rights of nature" and "law of ecocide" will become common sense.
--Ecocide site
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There was also clear cutting in the old Martin's Grove subdivision in Dahlonega...
BREAKING NEWS: CLEAR CUTTING ON JAY BRIDGE ROAD DAHLONEGA TO THE RIVER, MAKING A MOONSCAPE, DESTROYING ANIMAL HABITATS:
The critical issue is habitats for bears and other wildlife and how they encroach on human habitats.
There are people who have regard for the way they do things and there are people who have no regard.
That is why there is a criminal code over human behavior, and that is also why there need to be boundaries and limits on human behavior towards nature, because of cases like this.
There is now A PETITION FOR A TREE ORDINANCE IN LUMPKIN COUNTY. IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON LINE AND ON PAPER. AND, WE SHALL OVERCOME...
From a resident on Jay Bridge Road:
I live on Jay Bridge and am well aware, and saddened, by this. But no law is being broken, as long as the taxes get paid for the timber, folks. It is his property and other than following the land use code as to what gets built there...I have informed the tax commissioner to make sure the county gets its taxes. That's about all that can be done. I'm just praying there are no plans for a subdivision or trailer park!
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I saw a baby deer standing on the side of Hwy 60 last night alone. I am sure the mother was probably dead or hopefully nearby. The habitat grows smaller and the have no where to go. I see them grazing in fields. WE EVEN HAVE bears out in the open competing for food.--Joyce Hood.
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What Clear Cutting Does to the Eco system:
"When trees are cut down in a forest especially all the way to the creek or river edge it completely destroys the eco system. This happened earlier this year near my home. the insects' habitat is completely gone. in my case they moved onto our property. ants, bees, butterflies, moths.... even bugs i didn't know! the opossums, racoons, deer, birds of all kinds, mice, rats, squirrels, and yes a mother bear and 3 cubs moved right in on us. this is a danger to them and us!" Linda Chadwick Mills, Dahlonega
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Dahlonega Nugget Editor:
(put letter to the editor in the subject line.)
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If you destroy a forest, you're not just destroying trees...
The Trail of Tears...where did those animals go? It is everyone's business what happens, here.
...Not the Freedeom to destroy it...
We are not threatened by a Tree Ordinance; we are threatened by the LACK of a Tree Ordinance.
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Let's do good by not clear cutting land; and let us do good by replanting trees, all over Lumpkin County.
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Romans 13:10
Romans 13:10
New International Version (NIV)
"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
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NATURE DOES NOT NEED HUMANS...IT CAN LIVE WITHOUT US...WE NEED NATURE....WE ARE NATURE.
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Altering nature can, has, and will, alter human existence. We have been given free will, but not the right to destroy nature for the sake of profit. There are consequences to all our actions.
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"The Earth, and its atmosphere, is striking back..." CNN News, at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
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Having the right to clear cut land does not make it right.
There needs to be a tree ordinance in Lumpkin County.
Calling it 'best practices' not make it "good."--best for whom? Not the animals that lived there. Not for us, who along with animals, breathe air.
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WE NEED OUR TREES
Dahlonega is going from a Get-Away-To--
to a Get-Away-From,
as fast as you can say, 'Alpharetta...'
We need to preserve our Natural Heritage, and the rural small town feel to our town and County, an oasis in the midst of Atlanta sprawl, where subdivision is meeting subdivision, and wild animals have nowhere to live.
So much has happened just since 2003 when I moved here. It won't be long before tourists will want to avoid Dahlonega. They will keep right on going to a real getaway, like Blairsville, or Cleveland, GA.
Woodman, Spare That Tree!
Woodman, Spare that Tree! When it was young it sheltered me; I will defend it, now...
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Why We Live Here:
Why Tourists Visit Here
Habitats for animals, and fish
We need a Tree ordinance in Lumpkin County.
We need a better Tree Ordinance in Dahlonega, and one that is enforced.
Resistance by officials, in the past, to a Tree Ordinance should now become a thing of the past...
Protection of our trees will become only more relevant as time goes on. Protection of our trees means protection for us, our way of life, our tourist industry. Our oxygen supply.
Currently, all that is needed to remove a tree in this County is a Site Plan. Which means there are no boundaries at all around cutting down a tree.
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Tree removal affects the oxygen supply and environment of us all. Just as polluting the river on one's land affects the water, elsewhere, and for everyone, just as polluting the ocean affects the creatures that live in it and the food supply of everyone.
Please contact me with thoughts and suggestions on how to proceed. jamiek.klem@gmail.com
Sign the petition.
Send your thoughts on this issue as a Letter to the Editor.
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We need trees. Trees are our friends. Trees are why people live and visit here.
Just as China building one Coal Power Plant a week affects the atmosphere all over the world.
A Holy Book says humans were placed on Earth to cultivate it and to take care of it.
The Earth started out as a finely tuned paradise...
We need to keep our eyes on the future and our long range purpose.
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We are threatened by the lack of a Tree Ordinance.
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Why has there been such resistance by local officials to a tree ordinance, when regular, ordinary, caring old timers have long demanded one?
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If every concerned citizen did just one thing in this direction we can get it done. Please write a letter to the Editor. Download and print and post a flyer.
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Be on the Tree Committee.
Long live planet Earth. We shall overcome.
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