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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/1pbRF.St.138.jpeg|525Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. He stands on the ground level stump of an Ash tree that helped to hold the banks of the Rocky River in place. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/5qetP.St.138.jpeg|413Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. He walks across the temporary bridge he agreed to next to a ground level stump of an Ash tree that helped to hold the banks of the Rocky River in place. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/vFAUz.St.138.jpeg|413Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/Gxf7D.St.138.jpeg|413Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. A boundary stake lays across the remains of an Ash tree that helped to hold the banks of the Rocky River in place. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/1deaxp.St.138.jpeg|413Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. He squats on a ground level stump of an Ash tree that helped to hold the banks of the Rocky River in place. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/pm919.St.138.jpeg|413Gas pipeline construction workers bore underneath the Rocky River on Friday November 9, 2012. Jimmy McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/1ko90N.St.138.jpeg|525A gas pipeline construction team uses a line boring machine to tunnel beneath the Rocky River on Friday November 9, 2012. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/55/ll3B1.St.138.jpeg|413Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate. He said he was assured no trees would be felled for the project. Instead, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/54/lnG6b.St.138.jpeg|389Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm as a gas pipeline construction team continues work on Friday November 9, 2012. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/08/54/1g5qQS.St.138.jpeg|414Jimmy McKnight talked about the loss dozens of trees on his farm on Friday November 9, 2012. McKnight returned from a real estate seminar in Virginia last week to discover that dozens of trees, some more than 100 years old, had been chopped down on his family's land along Shearer Road for a Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline project. McKnight is irate, a 20 ft x 260 ft swath of trees are gone along the Rocky River which runs through the property. John D. Simmons - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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