Part of my walk today was up on Cook Hill in the back part of Partridge Run. 🌲🌳🌳

One of the newer state acquisitions up here – maybe thirty years ago, it’s full of trash species, namely black loctus and brambles. Maybe it’s intentional managed that way for the grouse but even for them it doesn’t seem like the kind of land they’d like.

Full of ticks too I’m sure. I’ll have to make sure to check myself over when I get home. Maybe shower too. Hate to get Lyme Disease during the middle of the pandemic, especially as I don’t have internet at home for telemedicine. And I know when I have land, if it comes with trash forest like that, they’re going to be a lot of chain saw action for firewood and some big ol brush pile burnings.