Trees in the media

[David Humphries]

China and guitar manufacturer Gibson reported as being destination of illegally logged Madagascan Rosewood.

 

Madagascar's forests vanish to feed taste for rosewood in west and China | World news | The Guardian

 

 

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[Andy Collins]

I'm not referring to the above incident specifically but in general.

 

It's usually always a very an emotive issue.

 

It can and does remind friends and families of where and why their loved ones got maimed or passed away.

 

Btw, I'm not advocating this approach particularly, but I know of instances where this has occurred.

 

On one particular occasion a fatality occurred during a head on collision with a willow and the stem really only sustained a relatively small amount of bark damage by the car with no specific structural issues, but it was still removed.

 

 

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Hmmm I'm not sure I agree 100% with this. I can recount many many roadside trees that have been struck around this area, they become an almost timeless memorial to a lost loved one. Bouquets and ribbons, toys and plaques appear, to be updated yearly in memoriam. Maybe it's a "town" thing to take out the tree? I like to see the living memorials to accident victims, personally.

[David Humphries]

We still get the memorials, teddy bears and flowers Andy, just the visual of accident tends to get removed from what I see in the urban context.

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Reported in HortWeek

 

Police called to scene to break up a scuffle between contractor and a local resident over the removal of 'unsafe' trees

 

Scuffle breaks out as trees felled in popular memorial garden | Horticulture Week

 

 

Sounds as if more consultation and site security could have been improved upon.

 

 

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[treeseer]

More consultation ... like the TO considering something besides felling.

 

Trenches dug right next to trunks are terrible, but there are a lot of options.

[David Humphries]

China planting 67,000 hectares of trees around Beijing

 

 

 

Planting forests across Beijing could help combat pollution

 

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[daltontrees]

China planting 67,000 hectares of trees around Beijing

 

 

 

Planting forests across Beijing could help combat pollution

 

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A tantalising but inconclusive article. Personally I hope the chinese are serious. Based purely on the size of China and UK, anything UK does is trivial compared to chinese policy

[josharb87]

Found this interesting

 

Chernobyl's Trees Won't Decay, Increasing the Risk of Nuclear Forest Fire | Motherboard

[David Humphries]

Found this interesting

 

Chernobyl's Trees Won't Decay, Increasing the Risk of Nuclear Forest Fire | Motherboard

 

No fungi !

 

Well that's one area this travelling fungalbury won't be likely to visit any time soon

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

The HOW is a big question, too. Parts of China that I saw had some very different methods of pruning and planting and...a lot of 'ing's.

 

 

David as much as i wanted to see who was in that band, the link didn't work for me.