| Songs on this cassette: 1. Trees are Bad 2. Trees Will Steal Your Lunch Money 3. Trees, Who Needs 'Em? 4. Trees Rhymes With Fleas 5. Woodpeckers Started the Job, Let's Finish It 6. Deforestation for our Nation 7. Arbor Day Has Gone Away 8. Don't Fear the Husquvarna |
| Songs on this cassette: 1. When the Bow Breaks, Your Cradle's Gonna Fall 2. That's Gonna Hurt! 3. Trees Can Fall on People 4. A Tree is a Bad, Bad Man 5. Kids Get Lost in Forests 6. Trees Can Carry Disease 7. Trees Are Villains |
| Songs on this cassette: 1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Cutting Down Trees 2. Boys Are Bad But Trees Are Worse 3. Trees Gone Wild 4. The Chainsaw Cha-Cha 5. Trees Are Full of Cat Skeletons 6. Fill the Woodstove 7. I Like Lumberjacks |
| And another one bites the dust... |
| The Very Lonely Caterpillar |
| Donated by People Against the Ethical Treatment of Trees |
| Here is a children's book that is eerily similar to Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." In this story, the lonely caterpillar decides that he is better off alone. Being metal, he is depressed anyway because he is unable to eat leaves from the trees like a real caterpillar. He begins to believe that the trees are really a representation of corporate America's affluence, which he believes is always just out of reach for the common man. Without the sun to shade him, his metal body becomes too hot to touch, thus sparing him from children climbing all over his back. In the end, he has the last laugh when a child's hand is severely burned from touching his foot. Oh yeah, stick it to the man! |
| This week, I took my kids to the Red Bluff River Park to play. I was shocked by what I saw... More trees were gone, Kids were running around with little axes, hacking marks into the few remaining trees. I was appalled. "This is unsafe," I thought, bewildered by the park officials who were encouraging the children to chop harder and faster. |
| As you can see from the above photos, the children have been working hard to remove the trees. I wondered about the Arbor Day Foundation's goal to encourage tree planting, not removal...hadn't it affected the children in any way at all? When I saw the table laden with free literature, bumper stickers, cassette tapes, and children's books, I quickly understood what was happening. Let me explain it as only I can... An organization named PATH. (an acronym for People Against Tree Huggers), is behind the drastic tree removal we are seeing. PATH is on a mission to remove trees from city parks, and anywhere else children want to play. Their methods are truly amazing...give the kids some freebies and a miniature axe, and they turn into regular little lumberjacks. I stopped by PATH's display table and picked up some items, here are some examples: |
| I'm sorry, I didn't buy into this organization's propaganda. I became irritated at the hatchet bearing children and I let a PATH representative know it. She said that I was obviously attached to the trees, and it was understandable, having played under them as a child. She gave me a paperback romance novel (below). Who knows? Maybe I'll read it and change my mind. |
| Special thanks to Calvin for his help with the song titles. |
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