Pacific Northwest Gardening: One Billion Trees, 1 by Poochella

Poochella wrote:
Another hazard of the clearcut: it changes the wind patterns. After the loggers finished their work we had one of those "Out of the Cascades Westerly Winds" that blew about 80mph. Many more trees were lost because their neighbor trees were no longer there to stop the rampaging onslaught of wind.

Here is a triple casualty: maintrunk and adjacent smaller tree blew down, taking down and leaving the snag to the left. Good bird habitat, but the rootball is so unsightly.