Bleeding Trees

Today Randy and Dan cut down a tree. It's a Eucalyptus that got infected with a beetle from Mexico, and the risk of it falling on someone was too great. So they grabbed a chainsaw and cut. When I walked up, I saw the stump and assumed someone was missing a finger. Yikes!

But everyone was fine. It turns out that some Eucalyptus trees have red sap. The sap is called Kino and not only is it blood red, it's also the consistency of blood. Yuck!

It makes you feel funny, when you kill a plant that bleeds; vegetarians should see this. But the tree still needed to come down, so they cut a big notch in the second trunk, hooked up a cable, and pulled it all down.