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Having spent a great deal of time hiking and skiing in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, I have grown quite fond of the beautiful scenery out there. I suggested to my friend Tom that I might write a short article on his travel blog about something that will affect peoples’ ability to enjoy the sheer beauty of the region, and that is the wild fires that are burning up huge swaths of pristine and scenic land that will take decades to be reforested.
My name is Steve Portnoy and I have been working in the tree trimming and removal business for a couple decades. Back in the late nineties and early two thousands, I spent a great deal of time travelling up and down the west coast camping, fishing, skiing, and hiking with my wife Belinda and a friend from high school named Suzanne and her husband Nick, a contractor in the roofing business . They enjoyed being out in nature as much as we did, and we all grew very fond of the unique geography of the West Coas