Ecolog:
I know I won't convince Me that while public safety concerns about falling
trees (and dropping branches) might sometimes be exaggerated, the truth is
that trees do fall and break and people die from it, and it is only prudent
to get the dangerous ones down before they fall down. Me's
Omg. The moment it falls, someone is in the perfect position to be fatally
injured. That's the reason there is a war on trees in the Washington DC area.
There is this unreasonable perception that something that looms over us is out
to kill us. Parks here have trees near paths cut for the same
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Sorry to contradict you here Wayne, but your argument is anecdotal and
seems to be as straw-manly as GWPatton's - people who work in the Forest
Service are likely to get injured by trees, (lethally or otherwise) from
falling branches, trees etc. - there's a term for that - occupational
hazard.
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Thanks, Nirmalya! For comparison, tree failures cause about half as many deaths
in the US as lightning in any or all contexts. Very sad if it happens to you or
someone you know, but not worth a whole lot of worry.
--
Thomas J. Givnish
Henry Allan Gleason Professor of Botany
University of
Nirmalya and Ecolog:
Contradict what?
People get killed and injured by falling trees and branches--true or false?
The victims don't give a damn about the statistics and they and their loved
ones don't care about how small the odds are. (Anecdote: A year or so ago a
tree fell on a woman
The number of people killed by falling trees each year isn't really the
information we need. That number could be low because few decayed trees
kill (or severely injure) people or because there are few such trees in
populated areas.
What we really want to know is the probability that a decayed
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So much talk.
There is a reason that trees are designated as hazard trees. Sometimes, we
have to take a tree down. I don't even know why there is a discussion about
this. Chances are that there aren't more people killed/injured by falling trees
because we REMOVE trees when they are deemed
Ecolog:
Quite! Thank you Jane, for putting it in better (and more neutral) words
than I.
I have a photograph of a hazardous tree as an example, but don't know how to
send it to all Ecologgers efficiently. If someone knows how to post it where
everybody can see it, I'll send it to them. I'll
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Jesse,
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, you took the words right out of my
mouth, specifically in regards to unsubscribing from this list.
While faced with an ecological crisis that threatens the very survival of
our species, some are debating the probability of being killed by a falling
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