Around here loggers use hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment, and move fast.

Though that sounds like a lot of work for a guy in a pick up. Spruce is not used for heating much either, unless you have outdoor boiler.


Report it find out. Sounds odd both ways.

Is it possible was logged in the winter, when no one was around to notice?

Okay just a roughed out cut line to give an idea. But every tiny little tree is GONE, even trees that were 2 feet high, logs that were rotten, GONE. Next time I go back up, I'll take a picture to show much much is gone now.

Almost forgot, but just to the left of that red line, notice the reddish ground? Those are slash piles from where previous trees had stood. That's what this entire area looks like now.

mind if I jump in with my $.02?
Seems to me the prudent thing to do IS notify the the authorities, confronting someone in the middle of nowhere could go one of two ways...badly or well.

It's better to let the LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) do that, it's what they get paid for.

Besides, if CO is like here...they'd might be required to replace/replant and restore what's taken (unless taken out by fire, sometimes they don't replant and let it go fallow).

Next time I will get up on the mountain for a better view, but heres a picture from today to give you an idea of how wiped out it is.

That had to be a major logging operation that would not have gone unnoticed by local authorities. I don't see how it could have been an illegal activity.

far from major lol. Just a single pickup truck and a guy and his wife im assuming. Notice how the land isn't all marked up with track? Just one truck out there cutting

Jon, Is that just brush from each tree i am seeing, are the stumps pulled out? I cant see the stumps?

Yes, thats a slash pile from each tree. The actual loggers in the area push the slash piles into one huge pile rather than just leave it where it lay. There are stumps left behind as well, but that is the law to leave it around 12" high in certain areas.

Another thing I'd like to point out. Notice the tiny little trees or bushes in the original pic? they are gone as well, even logs that i used last year for pictures, gone.

Perhaps the scale of the picture is deceiving us. About how many impacted acres are we looking at?