It is my understanding that Oak wilt is the disease spread by roots even though it has a bug that is not how the disease travels. Rather than Dutch Elm Disease which is spread by the beetle who likes to hide out under the bark although when a tree is injected you see the hoses going into the roots.
And I too love the idea of "Totems" around. Believe it or not one of the first sketches for The Green Institute by a Univeristy of Minnesota architectural graduate studies program showed rawings of the landscpaing at the GI including "tree totems". Interesting the way ideas just go around inciarcles and interconnect every once in awhile - usually about every 10,20 or 30 years. For ow, Annie Young East Phillips Quoting gemgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I hate to rain on a parade, especially because I love the idea of the art > trees, but isn't the disease also spread by the root systems? Some one > should find out. > > I think a safer way would be to take the tree down, debark the trunk, treat > it for rot and water proof the bottom, and then put it back in a hole for > the artist to carve. Some mid-west totems would be a cool expression of > "our" culture. > > Jim Graham, > Ventura Village > > >"It's never too late for a tree to be what it might have been." paraphrase > of George Elliot TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
