Isn't Andover supposed to be TREE CITY? It sure isn't living up to the name, is it?
Seems to me that chopping down healthy trees is a pretty DUMB move--if you have to take out one or two to accomodate a place to put chairs for ceremonies, that's one thing, but it just seems to me that every time I open the paper I read that Andover is cutting down healthy trees. Oh, and BUYING replacement trees--ka-ching, ka-ching! I resent seeing tax dollars going to replace perfectly good trees because some soft-fannied, understimulated idiot musing behind a desk decides that he likes a different species better.
This is every bit as stupid as chopping down the trees instead of JUST MOVING the fence at Wood Park--just another dumb decision by town government officials.
It's not rocket science--you don't cut healthy trees if you can avoid it. You adjust your landscape to accomodate the trees.
In some parts of the world, the way they handle a "too big" pine is to cut off the lower branches to a height of ten to twenty feet, depending on tree size, shape the upper branches appealingly, and leave the tree standing. That way, the tree provides shade underneath the branches, people assembled beneath them can see through the forest, and the bonus is that they provide evergreen color during the winter months.
Why not explore that "earth friendly" and RESPONSIBLE way of dealing with this issue instead of cutting down perfectly good trees?
Instead of paying the fees for cutting down the trees, digging up the stumps, purchasing new trees, planting new trees, and watering in new trees, you'd just have to pay a tree surgeon to cut off the lower limbs of the pines in a way that won't damage the overall health of the tree. A couple of guys and a bucket truck, and you've got a lovely "venue" for patriotic ceremonies--with existing shade, too (and a pine will even shield you from light rain).
Now there's some huge savings for the town, right there--one call to an arborist--and you wouldn't have to destroy an old growth tree. Oh, and since plainly, you don't know what you're doing, Town Officials, it's "prune in June" so don't be doing this in the dead of winter if you do decide to take the sensible route and not chop down perfectly good pines.
How much is this effort going to cost us, to give us something that we never knew we needed, quite a few of us actively DO NOT WANT, but some nitwit decided was important? I love the way that "information has been solicited" but the bottom line is, they're going to do what they damned well please. Why not just say "We don't need your stinking input?"
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Seems to me that chopping down healthy trees is a pretty DUMB move--if you have to take out one or two to accomodate a place to put chairs for ceremonies, that's one thing, but it just seems to me that every time I open the paper I read that Andover is cutting down healthy trees. Oh, and BUYING replacement trees--ka-ching, ka-ching! I resent seeing tax dollars going to replace perfectly good trees because some soft-fannied, understimulated idiot musing behind a desk decides that he likes a different species better.
This is every bit as stupid as chopping down the trees instead of JUST MOVING the fence at Wood Park--just another dumb decision by town government officials.
It's not rocket science--you don't cut healthy trees if you can avoid it. You adjust your landscape to accomodate the trees.
In some parts of the world, the way they handle a "too big" pine is to cut off the lower branches to a height of ten to twenty feet, depending on tree size, shape the upper branches appealingly, and leave the tree standing. That way, the tree provides shade underneath the branches, people assembled beneath them can see through the forest, and the bonus is that they provide evergreen color during the winter months.
Why not explore that "earth friendly" and RESPONSIBLE way of dealing with this issue instead of cutting down perfectly good trees?
Instead of paying the fees for cutting down the trees, digging up the stumps, purchasing new trees, planting new trees, and watering in new trees, you'd just have to pay a tree surgeon to cut off the lower limbs of the pines in a way that won't damage the overall health of the tree. A couple of guys and a bucket truck, and you've got a lovely "venue" for patriotic ceremonies--with existing shade, too (and a pine will even shield you from light rain).
Now there's some huge savings for the town, right there--one call to an arborist--and you wouldn't have to destroy an old growth tree. Oh, and since plainly, you don't know what you're doing, Town Officials, it's "prune in June" so don't be doing this in the dead of winter if you do decide to take the sensible route and not chop down perfectly good pines.
How much is this effort going to cost us, to give us something that we never knew we needed, quite a few of us actively DO NOT WANT, but some nitwit decided was important? I love the way that "information has been solicited" but the bottom line is, they're going to do what they damned well please. Why not just say "We don't need your stinking input?"
The Patriotic Holiday Committee is WRONG.
Don't cut down healthy trees.