Gas prices aren’t the only thing falling in my neighborhood: we’ve lost more trees and more big branches off trees in the past week or two than in the four and a half years I’ve lived here. I’m talking big, old grandfather trees, the kind that -- even if the city comes and plants new ones, which it probably will -- cannot really be replaced.
Some of it is the result of stupid pruning:
So many beautiful old trees have been cut into a bizarre Y shape to accommodate above-ground wires (phone, electricity, cable) that invariably weakens the tree -- lots of arboreal Y arms fell this summer, and some trees that lost their Y arms eventually die altogether, and end up like this:
Continue reading the trees are going, going....
