RON, I use to cook cornish game hens over grape vines and they always had a great flavor! You mentioned the burning of the cherry trees, when we were in the gulf coast after katrina they were taking 150 year old oak trees ( 3 foot across) and bulldozing them into a pile the size of a football field and torching them! i spent a week on the phone trying to come up witha way to have wood shipped out west on rails/semis whatever, but it never worked out and to this day i still see all that great wood wasted! Through the years i have developed relationships with anyone that i could find locally who has fruit trees and they call me when they trim or cut down, also there's a guy in camp verde who has a pecan orchard that gives away his trimmings!
