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Old 1st January 2008, 10:15 PM   #7 (permalink)
ropensaddle
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Default Re: Failure of Roots

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Originally Posted by Ekka View Post
Well, I think if the article reckons 2/3's are soil failures then that's the reason.

Would it have failed if the soil wasn't saturated? Probably no. Maybe that's how we need to look at it.
Exactly high winds have some consideration too,the clearcut cut
the year before, contributed to high winds hitting this tree in a way
the tree had not had time to respond etc. It is a bigger picture than
summing it up.
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