Ken's right about all that, I can easily recall many locations I have camped with major hazard trees all around me but I didn't give it a thought.
I'm going up to get my recerts next week outside of Fresno, and am looking forward to it.
Are you going to have to go through the S-212 course that is the national standard now?
Some of the people there were upset about how it was run because NO ONE was given a certification card, even people that had been cutting down trees for 14 years as a B feller and I am not even sure who is going to be able to get a card from them. We missed one day in the field due to high winds and they said they would "try" to get us another day in about a month but will we then get our cards? We were all left with many questions that never got answered but another guy that is high up with the PCTA "Pete Fish" has been to these sawing classes for many years and the past few he has been unable to even get a card from them, no matter how much he would contact them about it he just couldn't get it which means without it you cannot legally operate a chainsaw; so obviously this system is not run all that well.
