My natural inclination of being a tree-hugger is always reinforced at this time of year as I watch my pears and Gravenstein apples start to get big. The pears are a particular joy since they are very inconsistent from year to year, but this year appears to be a great one for both the pears and the apples-- as long as I get to them before the squirrels get them. Here are just a few of perhaps two dozen on my really old tree.
I'm even more joyful about the pears because 20+ years ago an arborist told me I should just cut it down since it wouldn't bear any fruit due to its age and its trunk being in bad shape. A little wire supporting the weight and voila-- pears for decades!
I’d put my faith in the Tree-Hugger before the Arborist. They’re not tree people but greedy lackey’s authorizing death for profits.
Tree-Huggers likely wouldn’t have allowed the annihilation of Washington Park.
An arborist approved removal of the Redwood Grove behind the hospital, the Generals own Giant Sequoia on Sherman ave. The stripping/thinning of beloved Redwood trees, at the height of heat and bug season (Village Park). Well, if they survive the beetles and burns of their open wounds, they MAY produce seeds again in 8-12years.
I could go on but it’s a familiar paradigm...
Similar to paying taxes for “qualified” persons to prepare for growth, fix roads and maintain our safe community. In the end you get 7 new parking spaces, pedestrian paths tangled into roundabouts, bicycles pushed into automobile roads and a bayshore sold to FaceBook.
Posted by: C. Seedot | August 12, 2019 at 03:46 PM