Reminds me of an American Elm that I shot some photos of (or was it video?) several months ago, that is in serious decline, and has been cut back to slow the decline (I assume). It was in an old farmyard. A medical imaging facility was built there, and to make the lawn of the facility, they bulldozed the ground down quite a bit, and stopping within 2.5 or 3 feet of the trunk of the tree. So the area directly around the tree trunk is over a foot higher than everywhere else. The roots were seriously compomised, obvously. What a shame. It was all preventable too, danged idiots.
--- On Thu, 10/29/09, pabigtrees <[email protected]> wrote: From: pabigtrees <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: cutting up a giant, 16.5 cbh white oak. Check out the saw! To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7:02 AM Larry It is one of those trees that everyone thinks is 3-400 years old. I am with you and had guessed 225-250. It could be as young as 150 though. You never know. It fell in the fall of 2006 resulting from root damage that more than likely occurred in the 1960's from an adjacent development of homes. I can just picture the workmen parking their D-9 bulldozer under it for lunch! And, as usual, it fell after being pruned to lighten the canopy so it wouldn't be blown over. Fell on a calm day for no apparent reason other than root decay. Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
