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The work done re. willows along riverbank appears to contravene the town's own municipal tree policy which can be viewed here: http://www.huntsville.ca/en/DocumentUploads/Bylaws/doc_634336307684210914.pdf Additionally, no further work is planned for that site; the trees were removed because...

Both the town and District Municipality (that the town is in) have tree cutting bylaws. Which for the most part are un enforceable; they exist mainly to discourage residents from doing what the town has done. I'm making a couple of polite inquiries. If there was a valid reason to have that...

Nah, we can rule out that possibility, Butch. Several equipment Rent-All outfits in town, vs. a two hour round trip commute.........unless they are coming back to carve stumps into raccoons and beavers. :D I carved a Manitoba Maple (box elder) stump into a big corn cob once that was beside a...

A lot of trees are getting munched in the wide median separating the north and southbound lanes of the highway. They provided a nice visual barrier from oncoming traffic / headlights, as well as looking nice. Wanna guess why they got chipped? Actual reason (from a Fowler Co. foreman associated...

Who's picking a fight? Get off your high horse and get over yourself. Who is ripping who here? Since those willows re gonna re sprout, they will require "after" care won't they? Some jobs aren't worth the negative PR they can generate, so there ain't no sadness here over not getting that job, lol.

Your right, Tucker; it's "brutal" to top street side poplars on another continent, but ok to remove willows stabilizing a riverbank over here. The leap in logic is insurmountable to me, so I'll agree to disagree and leave it at that. Love, Dave

I've got no beef with the Big Green Machine. It is the un-tendered bid process that gets followed in order to give work to an out-of-town company that is irritating. And the work that was done looks kinda sketchy, to put it mildly. I will try to dig up some photos of work I did at that site...

Inquiries will be made. :/:

Yeah, they used a crane. I removed a willow that had fallen in the river (same spot) several years ago with the help of a log truck parked tight to the fence. That bank is steeper than it looks. This recent work was done at the behest of the Parks and Rec Dept. The head of that dept. is quite...

Nearby Town (the same one that burlaps white pine street trees) had these willows removed last week by a company with green trucks. I don't know the rationale behind the removals. Perhaps a fear that they would topple into the water tear out the bank. Maybe reduction pruning and/or guying...

Definitely some very cool pictures posted here and in the pollarding thread Stig referenced in his post above. I've never encountered a pollarding practitioner before, or seen one in action, so it's all very new and alien to me.

I think them Russian trees look beautifully retrenched. :D. Very wind firm at the present time as well.

A "retrenching".

Interesting photos, Andrew. You apparently have some very very hardy trees where you are, and they don't give up easily. I heard on a radio program (CBC) a couple of weeks ago about a threatened salamander native to Mexico that researchers have been studying for quite awhile. It can regenerate...

lotsa road salt used up here. The mayor of a nearby town thinks young white pines make nice downtown street trees. :what:, so they also get burlap tents over the winter months. Will grab a pic of them later this afternoon. (probably an upside down photo, lol). Some of them have indicated...

De-icing salt?

I deserved what I got. The nail that sticks up gets hammered!

Cheers, Mate. I had to get that little shot back at ya for the drubbing you gave me earlier!

Hopefully (for the sake of both the tree, and the human effort and financial resources expended in the endeavour) it is gonna flourish for decades yet. Ironically dissimilar to the fate of the trees in our avatars, and those in your photo gallery.