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Mature Trees being cut in Borg's Woods
« on: March 03, 2013, 05:14:20 PM »
The Bergen County Parks Dept. has begun cutting down mature trees along the main trail in Borg's Woods.  Work has begun at Byrne Street, and more trees have been spray-painted with yellow numbers to indicate that they are to be cut.  The south entrance to the woods has been massacred. It looks like a logging operation in Oregon.

They are cutting every tree that is leaning slightly, has a dead branch, or is hollow at the base. That describes most of the mature trees in the woods. Basically they are deciding that it is no longer to be an old-growth forest. Borg's Woods isn't to be held to the standards of a manicured park, it is a nature preserve. When nature is ready, a tree will die, uproot, or splinter in a storm. I encourage people to protest to the County about this



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Re: Mature Trees being cut in Borg's Woods
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2013, 08:35:10 AM »
The County Parks Dept completed the cutting of all trees marked to be cut at the end of Byrne St.

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Re: Mature Trees being cut in Borg's Woods
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2015, 09:50:51 PM »
Well, there's a new County Parks Director, and a new major project screwing around in Borg's Woods. 

According to the Borg's Woods Facebook page, earth-moving construction vehicles have plowed a corridor 300 feet deep and 15 feet wide, completely removed of all trees and brush.  This starts 100 feet in from the Byrne Street entrance. And this may be to create a new trail/roadway system capable of supporting vehicles. Environmentalists are in an uproar, everyone wants to keep Borg's Woods a passive trail system; no intensive use.  Have any neighbors been consulted ? Any city officials been consulted ? 

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Re: Mature Trees being cut in Borg's Woods
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2015, 07:03:30 AM »
According to Facebook postings, the County is making a TEMPORARY construction road (basically a logging road), just to reach Coles brook and pull some branches out of the stream area.  And the area of Coles Brook where they are working is NOT part of the County property, it is owned by homeowners, and the County doesn't know where their property line is.  So all the destruction was completely unnecessary.