Amongst the trees you at least take away some of their advantages. There are a lot more places to hide. It's like Kirk taking the Enterprise into the nebula at the end of Wrath of Khan
And if you get away, you haven't committed any crime.
Or to stretch the analogy even further: break the system (Kahn IIRC). Go pay a visit to OM, get him drunk and make him type the best outcome possible for your group's hair-brained actions.
I like this option best.