Most trees here are either farmed, or you get a tag from the BLM to cut down a tree that would be forested anyhow. They have to thin out the trees for fire mitigation and also for the health of the forest, so not all trees can be saved like little puppies. Even big, pretty trees can become something better. If you lived here, you wouldn't be crying over a tree. Get out of the big city and into the mountains and see how many trees there are, and learn how too many hurts the health of all of them (kinda like deer and elk herds). This tree will be appreciated more in someone's living room than it ever could have been hidden among the other trees, then burned up in a forest fire or eaten by beetles or other bugs, the it dies, falls and is trash anyhow.