Omg. The moment it falls, someone is in the perfect position to be fatally injured. That's the reason there is a war on trees in the Washington DC area. There is this unreasonable perception that something that looms over us is out to kill us. Parks here have trees near paths cut for the same irrational fear. Yet you can go to other states like NY or ME and find that there is no such rampant tree culling. There is a distorted perception of risk to me versus averaged risk to populations.
Geoff Patton Wheaton, MD Sent from my iPhone On Jan 19, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Wayne Tyson <[email protected]> wrote: > Good idea in the wild, but in a place where there are lots of people, one has > to think of what it hits when it falls after the roots rot enough--it's just > fine until that instant when the last bit of rot or burrowing rodent or > whatever cuts the last bit of dead tissue--and BAM! Somebody's dead. Drawing > birds and other creatures into the urban context is wonderful, but I worry > about the populations of predators like domestic and feral cats and the lack > of understory for laddering fledglings up off the ground when they make their > first hard landing. Context is everything. > > WT > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "eann" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:02 AM > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Tree stump removal in sensitive area > > >> Rather than worry about stump removal, why not cut the tree off higher up >> and leave it for cavity birds? >> >> Ann >> ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ >> E. Ann Poole, NH-CWS >> Poole Ecological Consultancy >> PO Box 890, 741 Beard Rd >> Hillsborough, NH 03244 >> (603)478-1178 >> [email protected] >> www.eannpoole.com >> ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1430 / Virus Database: 2639/5543 - Release Date: 01/19/13
