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