Re: Tree butchery

--- Bracey Tiede <tiede@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Moira,
> 
> Kiwis are no worse than Americans.  I drive around
> the SF Bay Area sadly
> noting the wholesale deformation of all kinds of
> trees.  In some
> neighborhoods that haven't undergrounded their
> utility (power, phone, cable
> tv) lines, the power company has come through and
> created big vee-shaped
> holes in the middle of street trees to keep them out
> of the power lines.
> There is a Chinese elm down the street that will
> probably just split in half
> this year because the majority of the tree is
> hanging out over the street
> and not over the trunk.  Palm trees are beheaded. 
> It's horrendous.
> 
> Our MG group is thinking of having an 'Ugly Tree'
> contest this winter so we
> can post photos of what not to do on our website. 


There is a walnut tree along the 101 in Gilroy where
they did just that... they cut a v-shape into the form
of the tree to keep it out of the powerlines. Another
thing i've seen is simply pruning back a Monterey
Cypress to keep it out of the wires (it has worked...
they didn't top it as far sa I can tall). But, more
often than not they top the trees, which is quite sad.

However most people  just don't plant anything under
the lines it seems (well they don't even plant
anything in planting medians where there are no
overhead lines either... oddly)

I really would love to see powerlines placed
underground more. It would allow street trees to go
unscathed and at least end lines falling due to wind
storms and the like (although i suppose getting to a
wire that's having problems with tree roots over them
could be an issue.)
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