I really don't get the point of decreasing tree q because of picking branches and bark. Trees have been gimped enough as it is, don't add insult to injury. As it is now, I'm not picking branches at all. It makes more sense just to chop the tree and turn it into branches.
"The psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will be equal to the physical trials of the martyrs. In order to face these trials we must be living in a different world."