 Re: Rotting Silver maple.
Interesting politics all round.
By the way, dont all large over mature trees fail eventually anyway unless man intervenes?
Trees go through a cycle, young saplings, semi mature, mature, over mature, veteran (look out!)
On comparison we dont have as many planted specimens that old. Like the place was only found by Capt Cook in what 1770. And around 1800 started to populate.
So pretty much everything is a native and oaks, birch etc that were introduced are all under 200 year old.
But what i have noticed is big old trees fail eventually. It's the cycle. Left to their own means they lose the top, a branch here or there etc etc and slowly die back and eventually become mulch for the others.
Has this tree had it's day? Is it on the downward cycle of it's life? |