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[Alaskan]

So I planted more than enough trees to allow over 600,000 people to breath... Your welcome.

feeling cold yet?

 

[hennible]

Yeah... Sorry about that part...
It's actually crazy warm today 4C and pouring rain, the ducks are pumped

 

[Alaskan]

yep.. rained here again too... wild

 

[hennible]

It's some wild weather indeed, at this rate I won't have to keep the chicks in side for months... Not like I can really trust it to stay warm..

 

[chickwhispers]

Trees are also good for warmth.

We were at 4c today too!!!!e

 

[sunflour]

I think a tree hugger is me. It isn't like I'll never chop one down. I won't cut one down that that isn't sick or doing damage to something else. It takes too long to grow one.
I cut down a couple big maples when I moved in here that somebody let grow about 3' from the house. They were huge. I can't imagine what damage they had done to the stone foundation over the years. There's a 70' tall sweetgum that had been growing about 12' from the house. Again, foundation damage but worse yet the sweetgum balls constantly clogging the gutter have done more damage. Over the years it has caused basement flooding and water ingress to the back walls of the house.
My house has a flat roof with a parapet walls and a 20' stick of gutter across the back. All the water that falls on the house goes into that gutter but if it's clogged, the rain flows right over like a waterfall, down into the cellar stairwell overwhelming the drain. It was our first heavy rain after moving in. We had lots of unpacked boxes down there including old family photos that got ruined. I've had a love hate relationship with the tree ever since. It's a beautiful tree and the perfect compliment to the row of equally tall red oaks on the opposite side of the driveway but once the water started getting into the back wall I decided it had to go. I finally got the top taken down to roof height. No more gumballs on the roof but I'm waiting till spring to take it the rest of the way down so I can use it to grow mushrooms.
Trees in a forest that are growing too close together aren't doing each other any good so were another target on our farm.
Every year the utility co. trims trees that are too close to wires. They're really ugly and lopsided when they get done. I told them to just take the trees down if they're going to butcher them.
Half the people on my road top their trees every 2 or 3 years. A few of them have huge sycamores and they end up with standing bare logs. Then for the next couple years they look like they have afros. Really bad look for a tree. Why don't they just take the trees out and plant something that only gets as tall as they try to keep the sycamores?

That's my rant for the day.

Count me in…I'm usually a tree hugger too. Although I did sacrifice a small wild magnolia tree to put in my vegetable garden years ago. And my neighbors planted trees right on the property line and I would like to cut a few so they would not mess up my garden…oh well.

In our area many people have Crape Myrtle trees and cut the tops off every year..We have several close to our house, they are 30 years old and beautiful and only trim low branches that block walkways. I don't get why anyone gets a tree and tries to force it in position of a shrub?

RE: tree farming, that's a different issue. I hate to see pulp wooding areas just to show a property for sale. Those in the business always reseed and regrow.

Our local ordinances require replanting when forests are sacrificed for shopping and parking lots….But all that gets planted are tiny trees and shrubs…If you drive around in our hot summers, there is a major temp difference in those denuded shopping areas.

 

[bamadude]

If u object to logging....try wiping ur butt with plastic toilet paper

 

[sunflour]

If u object to logging....try wiping ur butt with plastic toilet paper

RE: tree farming, that's a different issue. I hate to see pulp wooding areas just to show a property for sale. Those in the pulp wood business always reseed and regrow.

I oppose clear cutting land and leaving it barren…In our area, this is done by property owners who hope to sell large parcels to commercial interests…and there is no reseeding..it leaves large unsightly voids.

And most toilet paper now does feel like plastic..

 

[chickwhispers]

The bad pruning and trimming jobs along utility lines are horrible and the bigger the tree the worse the trim. U shape, lopsided and almost toatally topped enough to cause the death of the tree in the next year.
All parking lots need to have some trees, IMHO.
The big Northeastern blackout of 2003 was caused by a software bug in the computer alarm system of 1st Energy in Cleveland when an unpruned tree limb fell on a wire. Now all trees trimmed by 1st Energy are pruned much more severe than ever before.

 

[ronott1]

If u object to logging....try wiping ur butt with plastic toilet paper

RE: tree farming, that's a different issue. I hate to see pulp wooding areas just to show a property for sale. Those in the pulp wood business always reseed and regrow.

I oppose clear cutting land and leaving it barren…In our area, this is done by property owners who hope to sell large parcels to commercial interests…and there is no reseeding..it leaves large unsightly voids.

And most toilet paper now does feel like plastic..

Most logging in the USA is sustainable now. Most of the forests in California are replanted after logging. We are also getting a lot of lumber from distressed trees from the forest fires. The trees will be cleared in a responsible manner and then replanted according to new research about how to help a forest recover.

I grew up living in a house that was in the first several rows of a Prune orchard. Every where I have lived I have planted trees.

Next month I will be planting another tree. I think they want me to plant a Cherry tree this time. I have a plum tree, Alberta peach and two tangerine trees. I also have a Barren tree of some type--It has lots of non edible fruit on it--kind of a waste really since it is very productive. It provides a lot of nice shade though.