There is no other way to say: logging is part of the industry. But still: every time I see this kind of forest work and it's results it makes me feel a bit sad 'cause the effect it has is pretty dramatic. To ride on some of the nicest looking forest trails one day and the next time I ride there the whole forest is gone. The next "victim" is the well known Ballinastoe Mountain Bike Trail.
The logging has been going on in the area for a while but it seem like the progress is just getting bigger and more sections of the trail are getting effected by the work.
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| The fire road was destroyed by trucks back in February |
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| Used to be a lovely forest on both side of the fire road... |
This time one of my favourite section was erased of the earth. The part where the marked mountain bike trail goes very close to the Lough Tay and a short part is actually part of the Wicklow Way. It used to be lovely: where the trail joins into the fire road the forest was beautiful on both side. Deep green, overgrown, proper forest. But now it just looks pretty much dead. All the lumber is piled up on the side of the road waiting to be transported.
Perhaps the worst part is to know it will look exactly the same as it is now for a very long time and we'll not see forest like we seen before perhaps ever again...
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