Well I guess now that someone has broched the "yellow snow" joke we can all stop wondering who it's gonna be.
And Quercus, I think you're probably right. I figured out a way to do the pines that I had mentioned without gaffs. You'd only need about 500 feet of tubular webbing, but you could do it I suppose. Maybe I'll try it someday =)
Most of the stuff out here isn't cleared because someone's worried where the branches are gonna drop, or that they don't love their trees.... they're worried about the stuff catching on FIRE like a tiki torch and setting their house on fire.
I'd say that at that place, the trees aren't of a propper type for that area, or their location to the structures. But I still think that open-mindedness has a place on the table, alongside passion.