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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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I do have a plan..trust me! Though it is neither as quick nor as easy as I would like!!!! |
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| Mature tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: hawaii. ohio. oregon. california
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Here is a website of some old trees here in the u.s. Did anyone see the program where they were harvisting trees that had fallen many years ago New Zealand? The trees had landed in, I believe mud theirfore preserved. www.rmtrr.org/oldlist.htm try googling tenthousandtreesblogspot this guy most be a trust fund kid. He has some great photos from around the world.
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| | #33 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Hi Sean, I found out they are going to chop down those old trees at the railway yards that shade flinders st west next month ! This town is turning into a desert.I love going past them on my way to work! It's so cool there .Bloody developers.They must be significent?a part of townsvilles history??? But councils just don't care How can we save them??? |
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| | #34 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Not sure I agree about the desert thing, when I came out in 88" there were very few streets with avenues of trees, parks were pretty barren, since then the local councils (yes folks we've got two.....though not for much longer!) have carried out massive plantings programs, and the result is a much greener looking city, and its streets. ![]() Nor would I classify those trees as significant (if they are the ones indicated in red), they do provide increased amenity values along that strech of footpath, but the species mix is dominated by exotics and the clearance pruning over decades has destroyed the form and structure of their canopies. Hopefully the council will have required the developer to landscape the entire length of that street. Just out of interest I have highlighted in yellow the trees on the site that could be regarded as significant...the single fig planted to provide shade for railway workers et the end of three workshop sheds..this tree will doubtless be trashed (if not already) and the mangrove along the estuary edge, again i fear will be ripped out as the canals are created....oh lovely another Varsity Lakes (though admitedly without the clown trees!) |
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| | #35 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Sorry but I'm a greeny and most old trees are worth something to me.I believe in respecting my elders and even if they are trees.Looking at that photo it looks like a desert to me!There was nice bushland down the bruce hyway but no more.Just dog boxes one after the other all with massive air cons!Cant you build around trees?Well at least the wild life is coming to my house |
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| | #36 |
| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mudgeeraba, SE Queensland
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Hi Funarty, No need to apologise for being a greeny around here. ![]() Thing is, you gotta start somewhere, all significant trees start small. Councils have a huge responsibility to do the right thing, not only by protecting their veteran trees, but also by caring for and nurturing their younger tree stock. Oh, and planting responsibly....And, given the paucity of veteran trees in SE Queensland, by researching ways of encouraging the things that are generally anathema to Arborists....selectively harming specific trees to encourage decay and hollowing, thus bringing back some of the lost habitat that will, in turn, encourage native wildlife back to the coast. Dave |
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| | #37 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Hi Dave, Thanks for your reply, yer but small trees take so long to grow! It's such a pain whenever I love a trees around here or a bunch of them some bastard always cuts them down! I think I'm gonna stop looking!!!![]() Oh well Regards Faun |
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| | #38 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Oh yer and councils SUCK! ![]() ![]() ![]() COUNCIL |
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| | #39 |
| Sappling Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Brisbane
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Heres one for the Ozzie's to enjoy. This is a Eucalyptus veminalis. Theres a small stand of these biggens, the tallest is meant to be 91m. Tallest of its species. Located in the north west of Tasmania. 2nd photo- tallest on right (I think). |
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| | #40 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Great stuff Tilia!!! Don't you just love it when you come across such beauties in the bush.. |
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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This isn't exactly breaking news but I like to keep an eye or ear on tree issues close to my heart so its heartening to read that the Camperdown Council are it would seem carrying out their promise to adopt a more sensitive approach to the avenue of elms... Quote:
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| | #42 |
| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pakistan
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Well thats An Amazing View Dear ...! hey Some time ago i Saw some man kind tree ...! like womens "N" some *********Stuff...! Well now i forget the link ...! Did you have some thing like this like Status...? |
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| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Detroit
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Along the same lines as the tree of life. Quote:
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| | #44 |
| Former Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Brisbane
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Interested why they call them Camperdown elms Sean. Camperdown elms are a graft species and are weeping??
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| | #45 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Yes you're right ??????: Camperdown Elm its the name of the town....have never seen a camperdown elm in the bark but they do look lovely...
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| | #46 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Sometimes its great to read a good news story in relation to trees, instead of poisoning or late night lopping..... The River Basin Kids eNewspaper, February 2008 Issue 14: Community helping a 1000 year old! A bit more info... Farmer's mission to save a 1000-year-old tree - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Wishing all of you a safe and pleasant Friday afternoon/evening |
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| | #47 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Thats really cool a truely uplifting story for sharing |
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| | #48 |
| Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl
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Great story,thanks for sharing Sean.
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| | #49 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Behind Your Sister!
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Wow, I dont know about you, but i'd like to meet Mr. Paul Haw. What a great bloke. ![]() Most farmers would have broken out the chainsaw and cut it down for firewood. 1 million litres he donated ![]() We pay about $1 per 1,000 litres of water here in Adelaide, but that's out of the tap, not delivered in a truck. So that's at least $1,000 worth of water he has donated to that tree. I bet he's the sort of bloke that would be happy in the knowledge, that people will still be enjoying that tree long after they've forgotten the name Paul Haw. cudos Sean, one thing that caught my eye in the article...... "trees were ring-barked as part of an early forestry management campaign to promote fresh growth." I'm confused??????? Do they mean, Fresh growth in the tree that's been ring barked? or, Fresh growth of new trees when the ringbarked ones die?
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| | #50 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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I have to confess to not knowing for sure...when I first read that I had assumed the new growth would come from the basal shoots below the ringbarking, but this would not always be the case some Eucs would die with very little attempt at regrowth, some, those with identifiable lignotubers would alsput on an amzing amount of growth in response to such damage. I'm guesing the answer then is a bit of both, however the use of the technique was driven in many cases more by a lack of tools and skills to harvest the very largest trees, than any preconcieved management plan. Ring barking such trees (and we're talking about cutting really deep into the trunk!) was a very common method (albeit slow) to reove very dominant individual trees. It is a great story about how a small group of motivated people can make things happen....for me more about raising the awareness of the forest and the treasures in there than perhaps the long term outcomes....I was so impressed I wrote them an congratulatory email.....(I do think the 1000yr estimate might be a journo padding things though) |
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| | #51 |
| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Detroit
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| 12 of the most magnificent trees in the world. I'd hate to have to try taking down one of those baobab trees. Last edited by Durandal; 30th March 2008 at 05:28 AM. |
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| | #52 |
| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| How fantastic ! I only wish there were more of the oldies ![]() |
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| | #53 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Just a quick post (very tired) tree longevity never ceases to astound me, even if the clonal nature of the new stems take some thinking to get your head around...a 9000yrs old root stock! Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden |
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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That was a good read, the darn thing dies but shoots another off roots, they dated the root stock. Argument is that the tree itself isn't that old, especially if counting rings. Did you read this? Australia could have the oldest, we had the tallest once too but you know, the Tasmanians cut it down, then recently they burned another large one ... dont let them know about this one then. ![]() Quote:
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| | #55 |
| Mature Tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Interesting find Sean |
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| | #56 |
| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Detroit
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If we include clonal trees than the christmas tree isn't even close to Pando in age, size and weight, unless you don't count organisms with multiple stems as a tree, which by the looks of things would exclude the swedish tree.
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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For more information about the Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine visit this thread. Tree of Knowledge Monument Barcaldine Queensland
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| | #58 |
| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Could we keep this thread focussed on significant trees...at least tangentally?
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| | #59 |
| Former Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SE USA
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| | #60 |
| Former Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SE USA
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Does anyone know the projected final cost of the cage around the Anne Frank tree?
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