It was late in the afternoon, the sun just going down over the fields, the last of the light filtering through thetrees and shrubs along theroadbythe old hospital.
The tapping operations typically involve 20 to 100 taps, usually by people who simply pull up alongside a logging road and drill holes into the closest trees, she said.
Until we reached theroad out: totally blocked by a ragged barricade of a dozen huge fallen trees, most of them old pines with their shallow root balls obscenely exposed.