Ash Dieback

My local council has a habit of chopping mature trees off at about 20ft in height.
So you see lots of trunks cut straight across at 20ft, looks awful and often they slowly die after that.

So is disease the real problem, or health and safety.

At Least the disease is natural, health and safety aint.

 

Agree with what you say Pete, about what the trees look like post surgery. Plane trees end up looking like severe afflictions of arthritis.
Since the use of a sealant, I think it was called Arbrex or similar. I have noticed many Sycamore and black Poplar that have been cut are rotting away fast. Perhaps our friend, Harmony Arb can enlighten us.

 

And then they can justify removing them completely. There would be protests if healthy full trees were removed in one go.

Wasnt it sheffield council who removed hundreds of heathy trees recently for no sane reason.

edit, 110,000 trees felled in the last 3 years across UK councils apparently.

 

To me, local councils/ health and safety, are more of a risk to the tree population than any disease we have imported.
They never plant proper trees anymore, mostly just flowering cherries that look good for a week in spring or just shrubby stuff that can be removed without much trouble when they want.

Just look at the stuff they plant along motorways and state they have planted thousands of "trees".

 

I think one of the problems is the best course of action regarding ash dieback is unknown. This is a relatively new problem and nobody really knows what will happen or what to do about it. From what I’ve read the progress of the disease is fast in young trees but slow in mature trees. And it seems a few don’t get it at all. As regards felling I can’t see that woodland trees will be all felled at once. Imagine the habitat destruction and the environmental impact. I live within sight of mature ash woodland and can see the progress of the disease on the big trees. It’s very sad but I’ve yet to see a dead big one.

 

The shrubbery/plastic catchers along the roadsides do a wonderful job. It allows the public to dump their junk out of their windows knowing the countryside will prevent it being blown into their beloved oceans.
All we need now is for sky tv to start a save our roadside campaign....

 

Interesting info from the Tree Council but it applicable to "non-woodland trees". Most ash is growing in private woodlands. It will of course as you say look very different from the loss of trees.

I am worried about the Rookery in the ash wood I see from my house.