The Old Globe represents a complex problem.  You may have seen a couple of the reclaimed wall sections at Amsoil, where the wood literally has an erosion profile from the years of grain flowing against it.

It is a piece of history and deserves some respect, but the recession put a real damper on the reclamation effort and the owners are doing their best to hang in there until a market comes back or is created through other means.

Here are the options as I see them:

1. Reclamation is somehow able to continue and millions of board feet of trees are saved from harvest, history saved through story telling, vacant lot created.

2.  It is torn down and hauled to the landfill to decompose and send GHG's into the atmosphere, history lost, vacant lot created.

3.  It is torched by arsonists and sends a ton of Co2 into the atmosphere, history lost, vacant lot created.

4.  More public involvement and another viable option comes forward.

It is absolutely wonderful wood that in any other time would have great market value. The Globe at the moment is collateral damage from this country's obsession with greed.