Because the tree was seen as useless by the lumberjacks, it never got chopped down, so it became old and big, and people eventually turned it into a holy site.
The nearness of logging operations raises fears of conflict between loggers and tribal members, as well as the possibility that loggers could bring dangerous diseases to the Mashco Piro, the group said.
He is sometimes protected in the Adirondack region and in the State of Maine, but the timber-men soon get angry because of his destruction of their Trees.