Barry,
That's a good idea to take pictures. After you're done, send copies of
the pictures to your Town Tree Warden and your mayor (or Town Manager)
and maybe send some to your local paper. Maybe that will inspire your
local government to put a stop to this. Just have them draft a letter to
the electric company that they want to see all public shade trees pruned
correctly from now on.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Caselli
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees
About a mile from here there's a tuliptree in front of a farm house that
has been truly mutilated. I will try and stop on the highway in the next
couple days and snap a picture, and while I'm at it, snap a picture of
the two bald cypresses on the edge of town that someone has in their
back yard along a creek. (not mutilated of course)
Barry
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Mike Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mike Leonard <[email protected]>
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 3:56 PM
Ed,
I see less of this type of butchery than I used to. But it's good that
you post pictures like this. Whoever did this cannot be called an
arborist just as any forester who liquidates or high-grades a woodlot
cannot be called a forester.
I'm also the Petersham Tree Warden and the electric company (National
Grid) periodically prunes along the roads to help prevent branches and
trees falling on the power lines. Their normal work is to prune all
hazard branches in a 5 foot pruning zone around the wires. But a few
years ago, they had a special program to go beyond that zone and to take
out more hazardous trees to reduce the likelihood of power outages
(about 400 or so). We squeezed them for all the extras we could get (I
got their tree crew for a week to do a lot of town work and I got a tree
planting grant and they delivered all the wood from the tree removals to
local residents for firewood).
But the most important thing to do is to make sure the power company
crews are using proper pruning techniques (natural target pruning which
retains the critical branch collar, etc.). The pictures you show here
are mostly along public ways. If so, where was the Tree Warden? I would
never allow such butchery!
I would like to do more as Tree Warden but with only a few thousand
dollars a year in my budget and 60 miles of roads in town, I can only
care for the Town Common and a few other areas. It would be great to
practice "linear forestry" along all those miles but alas no mon no fun.
Mike Leonard, Consulting Forester
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Frank
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:35 PM
To: ENTS Google
Subject: [ENTS] Mutilated Trees
ENTS,
This is part of the series of mutilated
street trees. These are Sugar or red maples beside a parking lot in
Dubois, PA. They stick well above the power lines, so there was no real
excuse to trim them like this. I will need to see if they manage to
survive the next summer, if they are still alive at all.
Previous posts in this thread by Barry
Caselli showed some trees in New Jersey:
Three Ruined Trees
Barry Caselli wrote: Someone in the
group recently mentioned the terrible practice of cutting the tops off
large trees, and how they rarely survive more than a few years
afterwards. That reminded me of some I saw in Egg Harbor City, so I
photographed them. There are a few others scattered around on other
streets too. January 18, 2009.
White Pines Completely Ruined
Barry Caselli wrote: imagine these
trees are actually dead now. They show no signs of life.
They did this to them about halfway
through last year. I was shocked. I'm not sure whether the intention was
to top them like they have done elsewhere in the city, thinking they
would sprout new growth, or whether the intention was to kill them, and
finish the job at a later date. But whatever the intention, they are as
good as dead, if they are not dead already (which I think they are).
What a shame. They were nice trees. February 01, 2009
Please add your candidates to this
thread. Just hit reply, add your text and small photo (500 x 375) and
be sure to delete the photos from previous posts.
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
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