Tree World - View Single Post - Save the private tree cost $260,000 paid by Brisbane City Council

treestyle · 16th September 2007, 03:12 AM

I think it's a good thing that the tree was saved. Seems like a lot of money. HOWEVER i think it's justifiable. presuming the tree has a minimum of 100 more years life. I don't know what the figures are but i'm sure that if you were to purchase the oxygen that it will make in that time, it would cost you more then 260k. not to mention the habitat, i remmeber reading a study that was done on the sunshine coast somewhere. was a large Gum approx 300 yr old tree with 22 hollows, it was calculated that for man to make, install and maintain the same amount of nest boxes over 100 years would cost something like $200 - 400k.

Perhaps the money used to move the tree could have spent elsewhere on numerous projects. But honestly i think they did the right thing.

16th September 2007, 03:12 AM	#10 (permalink)
treestyle Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Brisbane Posts: 123	Re: Save the private tree cost $260,000 paid by Brisbane City Council I think it's a good thing that the tree was saved. Seems like a lot of money. HOWEVER i think it's justifiable. presuming the tree has a minimum of 100 more years life. I don't know what the figures are but i'm sure that if you were to purchase the oxygen that it will make in that time, it would cost you more then 260k. not to mention the habitat, i remmeber reading a study that was done on the sunshine coast somewhere. was a large Gum approx 300 yr old tree with 22 hollows, it was calculated that for man to make, install and maintain the same amount of nest boxes over 100 years would cost something like $200 - 400k. Perhaps the money used to move the tree could have spent elsewhere on numerous projects. But honestly i think they did the right thing.