Radioeken, Stockholm

[nod]

During the past weeks concern has raged in Stockholm due to the decision by authorities to fell an ancient oak that stands on a central reserve of a city street. The decision seems to have been based on a series of poorly planned & poorly executed surveys of the tree, but maybe there are a series of politically motivated reasons that lay undisclosed?

 

Many individuals have given their time & expertise freely to try & aid the authorities in seeing that this type of decision can be made wholly on the accurate capture & presentation of data. This can then be put through scientifically based processes to form an educated conclusion & therefore a decision on management options.

 

It would do well for any & all people involved with any decision making process to look as much as possible into this case, if only to learn how such events should not be allowed to unfold in the future. A disgraceful sequence of events!

 

Protesters against the decision have made an almost 24 hour vigil for the past month & this morning, After their removal the tree was felled under the protection of Stockholms city police.

 

Eken sågas ner - ABC | SVT Play

 

This link may not be available for long but it shows the events that unfolded this morning.

 

What more can be said or done?

Nod

[Daniël Bos]

There was a thread on this tree before, but it seems to have disappeared?

 

A sad sequence of event indeed.

[easy-lift guy]

If it was determined that the removal of the tree would promote and insure public safety/health than the tree should have been removed. Otherwise the tree should have stayed and the protestors should have been allowed to continue to camp under it untill a large limb broke off and crushed said protestors. Now that would have been worth setting up a live feed.

easy-lift guy

[Fungus]

During the past weeks concern has raged in Stockholm due to the decision by authorities to fell an ancient oak that stands on a central reserve of a city street. The decision seems to have been based on a series of poorly planned & poorly executed surveys of the tree, but maybe there are a series of politically motivated reasons that lay undisclosed?

Many individuals have given their time & expertise freely to try & aid the authorities in seeing that this type of decision can be made wholly on the accurate capture & presentation of data. This can then be put through scientifically based processes to form an educated conclusion & therefore a decision on management options. It would do well for any & all people involved with any decision making process to look as much as possible into this case, if only to learn how such events should not be allowed to unfold in the future. A disgraceful sequence of events!

 

Nod,

The evaluation of the condition and stability of the tree was done by arborists, who were incapable of assessing the tree properly.

It was said, that :

- the trunk at greater height was white rotted by the biotrophic parasitic Phellinus robustus, which turned out to be the brown rotting saprotrophic Daedalea quercina.

- the presence of a FB of Fistulina hepatica at the base of the trunk meant, that the tree lost a major root and with it threatening the tree to tip over, which is utter nonsense, because F. hepatica never has been responsible for the (wind)throw of an oak, with which it has an unique relationship investing in both the tree and the fungus to grow old,

so they felled an oak, that had just entered its second phase of 200-300 years of its tree species specific life, that could have become a veteran oak of 600-900 years old if the crown had been reduced in two stages and the because of the enclosure by a stone wall degraded root system had been given the space to restore its roots and their associations with ectomycorrhizal macrofungi needed for the revival of the tree as a whole.

[PhilBeech]

Sad times, there looked to be a very respectable t/r ratio on that stump cut.

 

Thanks for posting Nod.

[Fungus]

there looked to be a very respectable t/r ratio on that stump cut ...

 

Phil,

... which was to be expected from the primal stage of brown rot caused by Fistulina hepatica.

[Fungus]

... which was to be expected from the primal stage of brown rot caused by Fistulina hepatica.

 

See my album on Fistulina hepatica.

[PhilBeech]

Thanks Gerrit that is great :-)

[Xerxses]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members-only/36340-tv-oak-stockholm-4.html#post577183

[Bundle 2]

Good post....

What a wicked waste !