Last week we started cutting trees down on the left side of twelve. These trees are encroaching onto the golf course and around the fairway bunkers. Out of curiosity, I stopped to count the rings and discovered that the majority of the trees on this side of the fairway are under twenty years old. This means that they weren't even there when the course originally opened in 1990. These trees have trunks in the 6-10 inch diameter range and stand 40 - 60 feet high.
This tree has approximately 17 - 19 rings, or years of growth.
This is one of the larger stumps at 20 rings, or 20 years
I lost official count, but we've cut about 75 trees on the left side of twelve, which all fall under that 20 year age mark. It would not surprise me if we cut over 150 trees by the time we are finished.
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