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Old 27th April 2007, 03:39 PM   #7 (permalink)
Sean Freeman
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In the actual carpark leading to the new path


Not only lopped, buried and severely damaged


Also ganoderma cankers throughout one section of the upper stem


So seeing as I'm a consulting Arborist thats what I do consult...write a four page polite but direct report to the Hospital admin about what I have seen who I am what I do and have done in this town and what my recommendations are. Now I will point out that I have recieved some flak from elsewhere about writing reports for free..devaluing our profession etc but thats ok I'll wear that I'm afraid people can hold that opinion. But we're not finished at the Hospital yet!

6 months go by nothing no reply (which was dissapointing to say the least) no removals nothing then I revisit the hospital.

By now some of the lopped trees are putting on the last hurrah



and along the edge of that new path with the lopped Euc with only one side of a root plate...well they've fixed that


So I'm feeling well a little annoyed, noone likes to be ignored especially when you have an ego and self image as inflated as mine!
See one thing that is special about Hospitals esp ours is that even in the worst weather Cat 4 cyclones for example this place will be open, staff will be parking in these carparks and having to use that new path to get to work. The increased risk as a result of the "work" done to these trees will be faced by those doctors and nurses.

Final chapter to come.
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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran

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