Re: vegetation question (e.g. Windy Point)

Christian Romberg Wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm just watching some vintage movies from Green
> Frog, and I've noticed,
> that the vegetation at many locations, e.g. Windy
> Point is now much higher, more trees, less view.
> What's the reason for that? Was there any
> event/human influence which had removed the trees
> well before the 1950/60ties, and now they have
> regrown?
> Christian
Christian:

You see that on most Colorado rail lines and abandoned ROW. About 30 years ago a friend and I hiked past Deen tunnel on the Tennessee Pass line. We wanted to shoot a train going up hill in the same spot where Dick Kindig shot a 3600 around 1945. There were so many trees up there now that we could not get a clear view of the track the way Dick did. Saw the same thing on the Ibex branch abandoned ROW east of Leadville. In early George Beam photos, there were almost no trees along the ROW and you could see the entire town of Leadville below. Now there are so many trees that you cannot even get a view of the town. Same thing on Marshall Pass.
As was stated, policy now is to put our every fire ASAP. In the past, trees were also cut for firewood in the homes of folks who could not afford coal.

Jerry Day