02-19-2016, 11:22 AM
> However, if we don't control the albizia, we risk access to emergency services being blocked when they fall over.
The massive ones I was referring to in the original post aren't a threat to the roadway themselves (yes, I understand their progeny could be), otherwise the BIISC wouldn't poison them. They don't recommend treating trees that are within falling range of infrastructure. Unfortunately people aren't taking that advice. Look at the absolutely huge one before the turn off to Nanawale that was poisoned within the last few weeks. I wouldn't want to be around when that starts shedding limbs. I've seen the dead/dying ones fall over too. Someone girdled a tree on my road and it eventually fell over on a power line and kept igniting. Thankfully it was a rainy night. Helco had to come out and clean it up. Get them removed properly by an arborist or get them while they're young. That's where the focus should be. Yes, that might be expensive, but the right way of doing things usually is.
The massive ones I was referring to in the original post aren't a threat to the roadway themselves (yes, I understand their progeny could be), otherwise the BIISC wouldn't poison them. They don't recommend treating trees that are within falling range of infrastructure. Unfortunately people aren't taking that advice. Look at the absolutely huge one before the turn off to Nanawale that was poisoned within the last few weeks. I wouldn't want to be around when that starts shedding limbs. I've seen the dead/dying ones fall over too. Someone girdled a tree on my road and it eventually fell over on a power line and kept igniting. Thankfully it was a rainy night. Helco had to come out and clean it up. Get them removed properly by an arborist or get them while they're young. That's where the focus should be. Yes, that might be expensive, but the right way of doing things usually is.