Dead Horse Chestnut Fell

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

there's nothing more artificial or contrived than a coronet cut.

 

On coronet cuts, when you look at storm-damaged trees......Oaks for example, they tend to resprout after damage, but it looks like they sprout back at nodes and not on the damaged jagged ends, so do coronet cuts made during retrenchment works really encourage dormant buds or a they simply there to disguise the fact the tree was managed by a chainsaw?

 

The (arbor)ecologists seem to believe that homeowners, landowners and land managers are too quick to pass a death sentence on diseased/dangerous trees that have potential for living a longer life. But they also seem to forget that retainment of such trees comes with much higher responsibility.

 

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The coronet cut was origionaly developed for just that reason

 

the second point is it is OUR responsability to understand trees and thier hazard potentials to a far greater degree, so that we include nature and bio diverse "natural nieghbourhoods" rather than the current state of eradication and control of the environment to OUR values, displacing lifes great many flow forms.