TALL TREE CONUNDRUM: I find myself forced into a state of noncommittalness over the battle to prevent the clearing of Depression Era white pine trees impinging on the vista of officials manning the Bass River Forest Fire Tower. Not that it matters since the NJDEP has OKed the cutdown of a goodly number of those mankind-planted old-growth trees.

I profoundly and personally relate to the towering aesthetic presented by the doomed trees.