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coordinated multiagency plan
Is that a oxymoron with emphasis on moron-ic.
I would really like to hear Zendo Kern's and Russel Rudderman's plan/idea of how to logically do this. Have they engaged any aborist that actually knows what they are doing and the best way to do the eradication? I do not think the government at any level is the best aborist so I would like to hear from someone who actually does this for a living and hear their ideas.
I do like the tree tunnel but as Jerry said it is a little scary. It is my drive home so we do it almost daily.
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Are there any biological controls for albezia?
Yes, and it's quite effective where activated... human beings walking through the property pulling the young sprouts.
Can be up to 100% effective, and has few environmental side effects. [
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I think with the amount of trees we have now... It would be a HUGE undertaking to eradicate them all. I sometimes wonder if it can be done. The trees are everywhere. But yes, it's not just the houses that get damaged ... My power goes out probably 10 times a year for the patch of trees we have on our street. It would be a never ending job. You could do patch work, then you'd have to come back yearly to make sure nothing got missed. Move on to the next patch as birds and what not carry the seed again. I would think it be next to impossible and most lots that have even 1-3 big ones would probably go broke and be forced to sell because of the cost of removing the tree.
IF it does get passed. Hopefully there is a payment options or some offer to have the state cover a portion of the cost. But that's just me.
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We have got to start addressing this problem at some time. We need to start somewhere. What better time than now? What better place than here?
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Originally posted by dragon2k
We have got to start addressing this problem at some time. We need to start somewhere. What better time than now? What better place than here?
Isn't this the same thing people say about the roads?
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Originally posted by Seeb
The Albezia have to go, but given the county's history of contract mismanagement the it might cost you 100k a tree
County just quoted me $99,999 for two albezias...gotta be in da hui seeb
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If a guy in Japan (or Pahoa for that matter) owns a lot he can't unload for $5,000 and the County sends him a bill for $99,000. for cutting the trees, then the County will end up owning it. With the trees gone they might get $5,000, or maybe not, but taxpayers are still out $94,000 + or -.
Unintended consequences!
Sometime when you go around swinging a club you hit yourself in the head.
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Originally posted by PauHana
If a guy in Japan (or Pahoa for that matter) owns a lot he can't unload for $5,000 and the County sends him a bill for $99,000. for cutting the trees, then the County will end up owning it. With the trees gone they might get $5,000, or maybe not, but taxpayers are still out $94,000 + or -.
Unintended consequences!
Sometime when you go around swinging a club you hit yourself in the head.
I'm thinking that the $100,000 and $99,000 figures quoted were heavy on sarcasm and not to be taken literally.
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If we don't stop the spread of albizias here in Puna, they will soon be an expensive problem island-wide. They (and their branches) have fallen on and totalled at least 2 homes in Nanawale and a truck driving the beautiful tree tunnel, as well as the Lava Tree Park pavilion. So far we have lucked out and no one has died. What cost safety?
Several years ago, when the County hired Tree Works to remove the albizias on the road to Lava Tree, there was such an uproar about cutting those "beautiful trees" that the job order was changed to only take out trees that were diseased and remove overhanging limbs. At the time I suggested planting of native trees in the spaces in between the albizias, and phasing out the albizias, so that the canopy would gradually be replaced with other tree species. I thought that was a reasonable compromise, and still do. Obviously, I was alone and those overhanging branches have grown back.
