Apologies in advance if these pictures aren’t clear or depicting enough of the tree to answer this question, but my apartment complex cut down this evergreen from in front of my window. I loved this tree and for years it’s given us no trouble through storms or wind. It provided privacy and nature watching, so I’m very upset and want to express this to the complex management. I didn’t see anything wrong with it but I do also recognize I know little about trees and how they look diseased. So I figured I would ask people who knew better if this tree potentially had signs of illness that prompted the cutting before I bark up the wrong tree lol. If it can’t be determined from these pictures that’s okay, thanks anyway!
by PickledCheetoh
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Ask management why it was cut down
Hoa and apartments will remove trees currently in fine health all the time. Most likely culprit is some sort of damage being done to infrastructure, think foundation, water lines, or even sidewalks creating ADA conflicts and tripping hazards. Sometimes a manager just is looking to redo the aesthetics, or sacrifice short term budget for long term maintenance costs AKA spending too much every other year on pruning? Cut a few down and replant, or not, and don’t worry about maintenence pruning for 10 years. Usually the healthy tree is just in kinda the wrong spot for the size it has become and has created, or is about to create an issue, or there is some future construction that will be easier/cheaper without the tree there.
Maybe the tree was so close to the building rodents were using it to get in
Wrongful?