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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!beaumont
  2. From: beaumont@library.adelaide.edu.au (Stephen Beaumont)
  3. Newsgroups: aus.conserve
  4. Subject: Re: Trees & whipper-snippers
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 03:30:50 GMT
  6. Organization: Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, South AUSTRALIA
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  8. Message-ID: <1e9p1aINNqv3@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>
  9. References: <721967125.AA00303@csource.oz.au>
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  11.  
  12. >Does anyone have any evidence of a tree being killed by this
  13. >practice? Do other councils use this method of trimming around
  14. >trees?
  15.  
  16. Burnside Council (SA) has, over many years, alternated between planting
  17. new trees and ring-barking them with a whipper-snipper.  Phone calls to
  18. the Council were much less effective that keeping the base of the trees
  19. trimmed myself.
  20.  
  21.