Tree Cop - a little doodle cartoon I did while waiting for the tree cops to clear me to enter my own property. It's a slang term for Park Service and Forest Service *POLICE* in case you hadn't heard the term before.

When I was growing up, these guys were friendly park rangers. I guess those types are still out there, somewhere. But in recent years they've kind of turned into some kind of paramilitary Gestapo BS ...not sure why. I guess you just can't have too much authoritarian jack-bootery in America these days.

Thankfully, we usually have nice ones here. But not always. Every once in a while they have some visiting tree cop who has a Wyatt Earp/Dirty Harry/The Terminator fantasy going. And THAT is truly disgusting. Otherwise, they're okay.