Two years ago, lightening struck and killed an enormous pine tree on one side of my back yard. At about the same time, voracious pine bark beetles girdled and killed an equally impressive pine tree on the other side. Now bereft of needles, these two arboreal giants pose a potential threat to my house if they were to fall at just the right angle. In the interest of safety, my wife wants to have the trees removed; for the sake of promoting biodiversity on my 2-acre lot, I do not.
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