One of the primary questions when considering removing a tree is: what damage would it cause if it were to fall? That includes damage to other trees and buildings.
Currently I’m letting a 15’ spruce rot in place. If it were to fall, it would just fall in the street (and it’s a fire lane so no cars park by it). Yes, I’m in Austin and yes I said spruce. That’s probably part of the reason it only reached 15’ before dying. But the birds still enjoy it.
Hot-Lingonberry4695
Yes. I’m pretty confident that they might be monkeys quoted my sister in law for a lot of work and one of their recommendations for one of their like 30+ cedar elms and hackberries was to let some be.
Additionally, I do very occasional side work for an arborist out of round rock and they recently extensively pruned a giant dead cottonwood, but left the main trunk and only little stubs to serve as perches. The customer specifically requested this though. It was at the back of a VERY large yard and posed no threat to structures or passersby
Bardelot
This is in line with the best management practices preached by ISA. The targets make the danger, not the tree. That being said canopy dead wood reduction in urban trees in high traffic areas is still very much a good idea. In natural areas of parks and greenbelts? That’s habitat and should be left as is.
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One of the primary questions when considering removing a tree is: what damage would it cause if it were to fall? That includes damage to other trees and buildings.
Currently I’m letting a 15’ spruce rot in place. If it were to fall, it would just fall in the street (and it’s a fire lane so no cars park by it). Yes, I’m in Austin and yes I said spruce. That’s probably part of the reason it only reached 15’ before dying. But the birds still enjoy it.
Yes.
I’m pretty confident that they might be monkeys quoted my sister in law for a lot of work and one of their recommendations for one of their like 30+ cedar elms and hackberries was to let some be.
Additionally, I do very occasional side work for an arborist out of round rock and they recently extensively pruned a giant dead cottonwood, but left the main trunk and only little stubs to serve as perches. The customer specifically requested this though. It was at the back of a VERY large yard and posed no threat to structures or passersby
This is in line with the best management practices preached by ISA. The targets make the danger, not the tree. That being said canopy dead wood reduction in urban trees in high traffic areas is still very much a good idea. In natural areas of parks and greenbelts? That’s habitat and should be left as is.