The variation in influence of tree protection across different land tenures and ownership is a common problem all over the world, certainly not unique to Qld. Seems to me the real issue is how best to encourage large companies and corporations to adopt the very same BMP's for the management of their vegetation/tree assets as they implement and demand in the management of their built assets.
For me getting to explain to regional asset management what modern Arboriculture can offer in terms they can easily understand and appreciate is the task at hand. As I've stated before QBuild is a very large organisation, they are divided up into regional business units and futher divided within each region. Despite all the potential and actual structural problems from our perspective within their organisation the opportunity still exists to help them move beyond this kind of destructive, costly and substandard tree work.
It is a slow, and at times frustrating process but our own National Standards do exist, other states have codes of practice, WH&S is gradually getting things moving....BMP's and the value for money spent they represent are increasingly hard to ignore, I'm confident things will change in our state..even up North.
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We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
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