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The sad removal of Deep Eddy's Cottonwood trees in September 2003.
Photo Copyright 2007, Steve Hopson.
"Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees. That's done indoors,
Out of a book, which now you think of it
Is one of the transformations of a tree.
The words themselves are a delight to learn,
You might be in a foreign land of terms
Like samara, capsule, drupe, legume and pome,
Where bark is papery, plated, warty or smooth.
But best of all are the words that shape the leaves –
Orbicular, cordate, cleft and reniform –
And their venation – palmate and parallel –
And tips – acute, truncate, auriculate.
Sufficiently provided, you may now
Go forth to the forests and the shady streets
To see how the chaos of experience
Answers to catalogue and category.
Confusedly. The leaves of a single tree
May differ among themselves more than they do
From other species, so you have to find,
All blandly says the book, "an average leaf."
Example, the catalpa in the book
Sprays out its leaves in whorls of three
Around the stem; the one in front of you
But rarely does, or somewhat, or almost;
Maybe it's not catalpa? Dreadful doubt.
It may be weeks before you see an elm
Fanlike in form, a spruce that pyramids,
A sweetgum spiring up in steeple shape.
Still, pedetemtim as Lucretious says,
Little by little, you do start to learn;
And learn as well, maybe, what language does
And how it does it, cutting across the world
Not always at the joints, competing with
Experience while cooperating with
Experience, and keeping an obstinate
Intransigence, uncanny, of its own.
Think finally about the secret will
Pretending obedience to Nature, but
Invidiously distinguishing everywhere,
Dividing up the world to conquer it.
And think also how funny knowledge is:
You may succeed in learning many trees
And calling off their names as you go by,
But their comprehensive silence stays the same."
Howard Nemerov, 1920-1991~
During the process of our works clearing the trees for the Sapphire to Woolgoolga Upgrade of the Pacific Highway in NSW we are required to remove trees that have been identified by the Project Ecologists as possibly being inhabited by the locally indigenous fauna. Trees that have been identified as “Habitat Trees” are left standing completely isolated after all other vegetation has been removed for 48 Hours. This time period encourages the wildlife to move on to less exposed trees that are not in the clearing envelope. Once the 48 hour period is up the Project Ecologists (Benchmark Environmental Services) attend site and supervise the felling of the “Habitat Trees” and carry out inspections of the trees once on the ground to rescue any animals that may still inhabit the trees. During this process our crews work closely with the Ecologists to gently move portions of the tree to assist in the recovery process or to relocate hollows with native bee hives (Trigona carbonaria). This process has been extremely successful, in most cases the animals have moved on by the time the trees are felled. However, when animals are encountered these have in all cases been successfully rescued and released. Some of the species rescued to date include the following:
•Green Tree Snakes
•Carpet Pythons
•Green Tree Frogs
•Brushtail Possums
•Squirrel Gliders
•Sugar Gliders
•Ringtail Possums
•Scaly Breasted Lorikeets
•Skinks
•Water Dragons
•Galahs
The sad removal of Deep Eddy's Cottonwood trees in September 2003
Photo Copyright 2007, Steve Hopson.
During the process of our works clearing the trees for the Sapphire to Woolgoolga Upgrade of the Pacific Highway in NSW we are required to remove trees that have been identified by the Project Ecologists as possibly being inhabited by the locally indigenous fauna. Trees that have been identified as “Habitat Trees” are left standing completely isolated after all other vegetation has been removed for 48 Hours. This time period encourages the wildlife to move on to less exposed trees that are not in the clearing envelope. Once the 48 hour period is up the Project Ecologists (Benchmark Environmental Services) attend site and supervise the felling of the “Habitat Trees” and carry out inspections of the trees once on the ground to rescue any animals that may still inhabit the trees. During this process our crews work closely with the Ecologists to gently move portions of the tree to assist in the recovery process or to relocate hollows with native bee hives (Trigona carbonaria). This process has been extremely successful, in most cases the animals have moved on by the time the trees are felled. However, when animals are encountered these have in all cases been successfully rescued and released. Some of the species rescued to date include the following:
•Green Tree Snakes
•Carpet Pythons
•Green Tree Frogs
•Brushtail Possums
•Squirrel Gliders
•Sugar Gliders
•Ringtail Possums
•Scaly Breasted Lorikeets
•Skinks
•Water Dragons
•Galahs
During the process of our works clearing the trees for the Sapphire to Woolgoolga Upgrade of the Pacific Highway in NSW we are required to remove trees that have been identified by the Project Ecologists as possibly being inhabited by the locally indigenous fauna. Trees that have been identified as “Habitat Trees” are left standing completely isolated after all other vegetation has been removed for 48 Hours. This time period encourages the wildlife to move on to less exposed trees that are not in the clearing envelope. Once the 48 hour period is up the Project Ecologists (Benchmark Environmental Services) attend site and supervise the felling of the “Habitat Trees” and carry out inspections of the trees once on the ground to rescue any animals that may still inhabit the trees. During this process our crews work closely with the Ecologists to gently move portions of the tree to assist in the recovery process or to relocate hollows with native bee hives (Trigona carbonaria). This process has been extremely successful, in most cases the animals have moved on by the time the trees are felled. However, when animals are encountered these have in all cases been successfully rescued and released. Some of the species rescued to date include the following:
•Green Tree Snakes
•Carpet Pythons
•Green Tree Frogs
•Brushtail Possums
•Squirrel Gliders
•Sugar Gliders
•Ringtail Possums
•Scaly Breasted Lorikeets
•Skinks
•Water Dragons
•Galahs
Removing one of two trees for a local farmer near Upton Cross in Cornwall. This ash was beginning to interfere with phone lines and blocking light to the field in front of it. www.lastingspring.co.uk
Notes: Beginning of the Civic Centre redevelopment, end of the Camphor Laurel.
Format: colour digital photograph
Date Range: 2013
Licensing: Attribution, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Crerator: photo by John Merriman
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Removing one of two trees for a local farmer near Upton Cross in Cornwall. This one was felled into the lane after being stripped of its side branches. www.lastingspring.co.uk
The District Council Parks and Gardens guys arrived to pollard the Silver Poplars. It is amazing just how much foliage this group of trees produce. In Autumn the whole area is coated sometimes inches deep in the shiny leaves.
The area just in front of the ladder is the Boules pitch which is regularly used by the locals even when the weather is fierce. They're a hardy lot or all crazy.
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4" tall hand knitted tree surgeon character.
Driftwood collected from the beach.
Knitted by Mum for my daughters boyfriend Lewis who is a tree surgeon.
I spotted this tree surgeon in Samoens and although roped on I was still impressed how much support those fine branches seemed to provide him with.
Our Daily Challenge 9-15 March : Isolated.
This young tree surgeon seemed to me to be taking a bit of a risk!
I'm glad he wasn't working for me.
Sudbury based Suffolk Tree Services cutting down a tree with the help of a Atles 100.1 lorry crane in Newton road Sudbury
Must be an interesting job. Hanging up a tree while working with a chainsaw. The two arborists here are from the company Trädmästarna.
Removing one of two trees for a local farmer near Upton Cross in Cornwall. This tree's side branches are being removed. www.lastingspring.co.uk
A tree surgeon dangles high in a tree from which he is removing dead wood, anchored only by his safety line as he uses his chain saw. Shot in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
During the process of our works clearing the trees for the Sapphire to Woolgoolga Upgrade of the Pacific Highway in NSW we are required to remove trees that have been identified by the Project Ecologists as possibly being inhabited by the locally indigenous fauna. Trees that have been identified as “Habitat Trees” are left standing completely isolated after all other vegetation has been removed for 48 Hours. This time period encourages the wildlife to move on to less exposed trees that are not in the clearing envelope. Once the 48 hour period is up the Project Ecologists (Benchmark Environmental Services) attend site and supervise the felling of the “Habitat Trees” and carry out inspections of the trees once on the ground to rescue any animals that may still inhabit the trees. During this process our crews work closely with the Ecologists to gently move portions of the tree to assist in the recovery process or to relocate hollows with native bee hives (Trigona carbonaria). This process has been extremely successful, in most cases the animals have moved on by the time the trees are felled. However, when animals are encountered these have in all cases been successfully rescued and released. Some of the species rescued to date include the following:
•Green Tree Snakes
•Carpet Pythons
•Green Tree Frogs
•Brushtail Possums
•Squirrel Gliders
•Sugar Gliders
•Ringtail Possums
•Scaly Breasted Lorikeets
•Skinks
•Water Dragons
•Galahs