Daily Story 117 - Maze of Trees

Before a tree can claim its rightful place in a forest, it must pass the three tests of treemendous treedom. The first of these tests is the ring of growth, the second is the raking of leaves, and the third - and perhaps most difficult - is the maze of barbed wire and machine guns. The first two tasks were nothing important, but the third was, well, difficult. Most didn't even make it through, which is in fact the real cause of deforestation - it used to only be barbed wire, but some jerk decided to add the machine guns and things just went downhill from there.