This reminds me of one more thing! Along the county road that I drive to work every day, there is a farm that got sold several years ago. In the left-hand front field, part of the field had Christmas trees planted on it, but they had been left to get overgrown. The new owners of the farm tore out and bulldozed down the overgrown Christmas trees and changed that part of the field back to a field. Back at the farm house, they bulldozed all the barns, and ripped down all the old trees in the yard except for a holly. They then put up a chain-link fence around the whole farm, doubled the width of the dirt driveway, and put in some kind of raised planter in the beginning of the driveway, and another on a corner of the property. But at least from the road, I've never seen any crops grown in the fields. In fact I've never seen any vehicles drive down the driveway, or even the gates opened. But what a shame at the loss of the trees in the yard of the house. They looked to be pretty big. Barry
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Mike Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mike Leonard <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 5:41 AM 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. 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