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The big impact is losing those trees that are 40 to 60 years old that you can't get back immediately.

We need to catch this person.

We need to end this.

And I'd invite people to come out and use the trail because we need more eyes out here.

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For the past year, the city of Gresham, Oregon, has been dealing with an unusual problem, a rogue lumberjack.

The person has been named the Gresham Lumberjack.

Someone won't stop chopping down trees along a multi-use trail that runs through the city. We've got big trees, small trees, everything in between being either completely cut down and just left here or partially cut down, which is a hazard.

And officials can't figure out why.

There's no rhyme or reason. Nobody's taking the wood with them.

They're just leaving it on the ground

and they're leaving it all over the trail.

Five miles of the Springwater Trail

runs through Gresham City limits.

But for the past year,

city officials say they've had a big problem.

Someone just won't stop cutting trees down

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