When Daniel Boone lead his men through the Cumberland Gap toward Kentucky, there was fifty years of history to fill before "THE Federal Highway" was to be built in the western waste howling wilderness on the sunset side of the Appalachian Mountains. They only cut the trees two oxen wide, but left "blazes" on many a tree to mark the route.
As you hike a specific trail, you must learn it's blaze or you will stray from the favored path. You may get where you're going later, or you may simply walk off of a cliff. A blaze is the only reason to deface a tree.
Inside a Manatee County PRESERVE, on an Amerindian Mound, in a State protected Archeological site, I found this two century old Banyan Tree carved for vanity and territory.
Manatee County Florida must need a few more walls down town for the locals to leave their mark...
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