Comments | bearfinch: spring walk, updated

bearfinch

spring walk, updated

Apr 10, 2007 09:54

So when I was out last saturday, walking around some of the tree-line roads along where I grew up.

And I was surprised to see this, all along the road:

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home, negligence, trees

Comments 5

kent4str April 10 2007, 16:12:25 UTC

How the Hell did they even do that? I can't figure out what could have caused that damage that wouldn't have been more effort and expense than doing it correctly.

A large portion of the tree and shrub (the plants, not the plant in our White House) maintenance in this area seems to be contracted to one large firm who really don't care about the plant's health or any sort of esthetic effect when they "trim". Usually it's hideous, but it's nothing like that!

bearfinch April 10 2007, 16:31:45 UTC

As best i can picture it must have been some kind of large rotating blade. I think this could well be a case of "contracting out" as well, which has become very common up here due to declining budgets and such.

kent4str April 10 2007, 17:36:44 UTC

More like a large, rotating blunt instrument - they weren't cut so much as bludgeoned!

trwheaton April 10 2007, 17:54:14 UTC

I saw trees trashed just like that last fall along the railroad line I take to get to work...One morning I got to the train stop, and the trees were hacked and broken as far as I could see in either direction. I was picturing a giant diesel-powered weed whacker rolling along the tracks to trim back the branches.

bearfinch April 10 2007, 18:09:54 UTC

Whatever it was it sure made a mess, and open wounds and stripped bark could well kill the trees once the warm weather comes.

In the area where I was, the trees were planted deliberately as wind and snowbreaks byt the road, and it makes no sense to me why they would then go and adamge them.