Ed- I agree, somewhere in between there is a balance to be struck...my experience with cottonwoods defines the prune it back to save the tree end of the spectrum...they can get too big, break limbs that they can't any longer support, create openings that introduce various forest pathogens, and lead to premature death...in urban settings, this could also involve injury to people and damage to property. By the way, the idiots that logged the pines at 16 foot should be chained to those stumps until they realize the error of their ways! -Don
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:45:36 -0500 Don, Mankind is part of nature. I don't agree with many of the posts saying "woe, if only people were not here the world would be so much better off." However I can't give the person responsible for this "trimming" the benefit of the doubt. I don't see that the topping of these particular trees served any useful purpose, except for lining the pockets of the person doing the trimming. Sure different people have different perspective on what is right or wrong, or what needs to be done, but everything can not be set in a blinding fog of gray. There are points at which certain actions are simply wrong. This is one of those cases. Ed “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again” Ralph Waldo Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: DON BERTOLETTE To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 5:04 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees Ed- The logical extension of your response is that mankind does not deserve to be a part of nature...? -Don From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:59:04 -0500 Mutilated! “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again” Ralph Waldo Emerson Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. See how it works.<BR _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_022009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
