UNCERTAIN – Until a few months ago, a 65-acre forest flourished near Caddo Lake, off Cypress Drive East, the road that leads to Dallas Caddo Club's front gate.

That forest is gone and the land now looks like a "Civil War battlefield" shortly after the shooting stopped.

The mixed bottomland hardwood forest filled with cypress, oak and hickory trees is gone, dead trees litter the ground and nothing grows but weeds and pine tree saplings.

The Dallas Caddo Club – one of the oldest private hunting and fishing clubs in Texas – owns the property and its officers made the decision to clear cut the property, they said this week.

Lake residents have said they are exceedingly unhappy with the clear cut, and are convinced club members also intend to clear cut a 151-acre tract of land on what is called both Pine Island (which is really a peninsula) and Judge Roe Island.