Several of the trees entrenched in the landscape covered by District 2 of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) are marked to become a piece of expensive furniture. You can't find better cherry, maple or oak wood anywhere else in the U.S. Unfortunately the roads which service the coffee tables and couches of the future have been keeping PennDOT officials on the edge of their state-issued seats for years now. Many of the district routes started out as gravel roads decades ago, and have been paved over many times. The problem starts at the base, which in many cases was never fully stabilized and succumbs to the negative effect of the glacial till in the area every fall and spring.
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