Adjacent to the FTC campus is a dense virgin forest.  For a couple days we have been hearing a chain saw so Jim went down Saturday to see what was going on.  They have cut down a huge tree, about 5 feet in diameter at the base.  It was so tall the chief of police was afraid it would fall on her house.  She is living in the house my family first lived in for a short time in 1968.



The man in charge of the work is blind - orange shirt and cane.  He has hired people to cut the tree down and then saw it into one inch lumber with a chain saw.  One third of the tree will be left behind as saw dust.