MN Dot exhibited a new low in governmental agency common sense with its clear cutting of innumerable trees along Highway 61 in Hovland and at Cascade. Scenic highway! Not with MN Dot in charge!
MN Dot's protestations that it was done to improve the efficacy of highway salt makes little sense when you look at what they cut and where they cut, particularly the cut in front of Cascade Lodge. That cut seems to be more to improve the lake views from the lodge than anything else, but the fact is that none of it seems to have any logical basis.
And, the daily drive past the cut area in Hovland has changed forever - not for the better.
More than an explanation is due, especially one that begs credulity, which is all we have been given so far. What needs to be done is to have this action thoroughly investigated and we need to have put in place an oversight system that does not allow such an egregious assault on the North Shore's Highway 61 to occur again.
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Highway uglification! I just can't believe this happened. The little picnic park just east of Cascade River, with its walking paths and lake access and BIG sheltering trees along the highway, used to be my favorite spot to visit. Now, it looks like a war zone.
MnDOT is stupid, stupid, stupid.
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