07-20-2015, 11:37 AM
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Originally posted by BradW
Understood. I think our difference in opinion was related to scale - mine a tree or two, and yours more about the area. Sorry if I offended you - not my intent, I promise.
If I were there I'd show up in the morning with a truck full of power tools and kick some serious albizia ass. Best of luck with your challenge and please do enjoy your dream on the Big I.
No offense taken, I just know how dangerous this tree is from personal experience during Iselle. It is nothing like what you or my partner experienced in the PNW, the closest thing would be the monster doug firs that land on houses in neighborhoods built on steep hillsides during heavy winter rains, but that is nothing on the scale of the albizia problem here. If you spend a little time on Bing maps (birds eye view) you will see miles and miles of what looks like broccoli, those are the albizia, it is eye opening to see the scale of the problem when you see it from the air. There is probably some little bug somewhere that would at least limit the spread of these trees, but then we would lose all the monkeypod trees.