This is TIMBER COUNTRY, as background.
Tree care is respected here by some, scoffed at by others, oblivous to many.
I've seen a little bad pollard-type heading/ topping. One local insurance company office just needs the annual sprouts cut 3" shorter, to the collar, to properly produce the 'knuckle' (I believe, as I know only a bit about pollarding, with no hands on experience), but the annual sprouts get stubbed off.
Fruit tree pruning is a bit like pollarding tree care, while not being pollarding at all. Annual sprouts accumulate from old nodes, leading over time to knuckles that want to resprout, sorta, on an old tree. These are usually when a stub has been left, initially, rather than a proper cut.
Some old fruit trees around here are maintained as effectively pollards, removing all spouts annually, and preventing fruit formation, I believe, by not having 2 year old wood on apples.
This campus work is quality tree care, in a very specialized, stylized way.
This part is outsourced to an arborist.
Leftist comments are about the crazy tree hugging, and then candle-light vigils that will happen when a big, old rotten tree falls on campus and kills someone. 2 vigils, one for the tree, one for the dead person. And I'm a tree hugger, that in most places would be center, maybe center-left a bit, but here, I'm the white, male, capitalist to the right.
Worker safety is a leftist value, compared to the capitalist pig that will exploit the worker...but leave it to the guys that mow the lawns and maintain the sprinklers.
I think that the College does have a good local arborist as a consultant. Heresay on the NO CUTTING, but very believable.
P. S.
Its easy for me to ramble/ get off track/ etc when the post exceeds the 2" in the Quick Reply box, and its a little cold in the house this morning, and I get cold stupid easily being uninsulated. I used the heat pump last night over building a fire in the wood stove. Oh yeah, and there is all that coffee without a lot of food.
