Hmmm, acceptable, yeah sort of.
It's always debate-able to some degree. And then the old argument starts, well if it's good enough for that tree then what's the difference to doing it to a normal tree.
And 357 posts later people still dont agree.
It's part of management.
Listen, here's a real sensitive case. I had to cut and clear mangrove trees back from a construction barrier. The trees are sparse. There's nowhere to target cut some to ... it's just like a long bent branch coming out of the mud or the lateral you need to cut back to is dead. By the book I'm supposed to do what? On some I left stubs or a foliage less pole coz.
1/ you can always recut them
2/ if they reshot great, never pose a hazard as it was scrubby creek anyway.
3/ still something left
So another arborist walks by and yells "HACK". OK, lets target cut them then mate, oh, a lot of removals now eh? That's environmentally sound too in a mangrove forest.
