Sad damage to the Woods

Nice morning for a walk in the Woods. At 10:30 I went to the NW entrance and walked into the fragrant humidity of the green jungle growing. Vague sweet fragrance may be from last of Ligustrum privet bloom or beginning honeysuckle or some other combination. Glimpse of a heron at the pond but interesting only the clear reflection in the water as it flapped to a hidden perch a few feet above the water. Green everywhere but no turtles visible. New dragonfly libelluid adults perching on shrubs by the trail. Spider webs are beginning again, dozens across the trail; but interestingly not the Micrathena typical for early summer orb weavers. Wonder what happened..looks like maybe young orange Araneus instead. With half inch of rain Friday morning, the trails are pleasantly soggy, but no standing water blocking trails, even on SW Trails. The ponds are well filled and the toeslope swamp to the west.
Mosquitoes are fairly abundant even with DEET and ticks are there too. I find several on me hours later despite precautions, DEET, changing clothes, shower, tick check etc.
Fungi are diverse and abundant with the summer rain. The wood ear Auricularia is full of moisture and full size on many logs and standing snags. couple of small red Sarcoscypha scarlet elf cups on Tree Loop, lots of small agarics on decaying logs, white oyster mushrooms, or something like it all along mystery fallen hackberry. Especially in NW Woods fallen catkins are everywhere, an abundant addition to litter fall. One large doe avoids me on Tree Loop. Barred owl flies silently away in the under story and disappears west of Hackberry Alley.
  65 m north of the old beaver dam there is a serious, large spot infestation of dozens of stems of the invasive vine, Celastrus occidentalis, bittersweet. In a rough ellipse maybe 15-20m long and 5-10 m wide. There is a luxuriant tangled growth of bittersweet leaves up in the canopy. Looks to have been there a few years. Some of the vines were 2 inches in diameter. I cut the big ones I could find with a small pruning saw I had with me and pulled up 30-40 smaller stems. There are scores of small stems remaining.
  At the NE Entrance to the Tree Loop I discovered that the northern boundary of Oliver's Woods along Hwy 9 had been cut this week. Looks like crews from a power company had a tracked vehicle and chainsaws to cut a swath about 20-30 feet south of the fence line.  They've cut and shredded trees marked with blue flagging with numbered permanent metal tags we used for phenology and species ID tutorials.  The clearing is excessive, and conducted without regard to the special conservation/ education status and the Oklahoma Registered Natural Area status.  I was saddened to see this. It would be good if the power company could have the understanding that Oliver's Woods has special status for conservation, education and research and they managed the right-of-way to have the minimum possible impact. Instruct the sawyers that the forest is valuable and they should cut only what is necessary. It does not look like there was appropriate restraint. Sad to have this damage and reduction of the Woods.