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- From: gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: aus.conserve
- Subject: Trees & whipper-snippers
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- References: <721967125.AA00303@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:28:25 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <721967125.AA00303@csource.oz.au> Peter.Hogan@f369.n633.z3.fidonet.org writes:
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- > My local council (Collingwood) uses a whipper-sniper to trim
- > around the base of trees in the parks. It can be seen that the
- > whipper-snipper is damaging the bark at the base of the tree.
- > This damage is quite serious with the soft barked Melaluecas. I
- > am concerned that if the practice is continued the trees will
- > eventually be ring-barked, killing the trees.
- > Does anyone have any evidence of a tree being killed by this
- > practice? Do other councils use this method of trimming around
- > trees?
-
- There has already been an outcry in a number of the different local
- government areas here in Perth over workers killing and damaging trees
- with whipper-snippers.
-
- Apart from the actual dead trees, however, the practice brings fungal
- and borer infestations of the damaged trees due to their resultant
- ill-health, so there is a flow-on effect as well which needs to be
- monitored closely.
-
- I understand Don Burke has also had something to say about it, and I
- expect his people will have accumulated a great deal of information on
- this very serious problem and what to do about it by now. Perhaps you
- might snail mail them for advice.
-
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