Originally posted by Eagle1
My guess is that the home owner would have called in the summer and said "take it down"
My guess based on long experience would be more optimistic. A minority decide to remove after a season or 3; most keep em. Just stopped by an old customer yesterday; I'd removed clump of sweetgums before and pruned a decent maple. Now the maple's gone, removed after a little storm damage--the ticks were in the hood, I'm told.
Now after baking in the sun for a year they want a liriodendron and a pterocarya planted for shade. So those removal decisions were reversed when the reality of summer heat set in, as the preservation decisions can be. Trouble in, even if the pterocarya grows 4-6'/year it'll be a long while before it cools them like the others did. I hate that I cut the gums; they had problems, but they were a whole lot better than the nothin they got now.
De-forestation is another topic. Do you really believe that it is the Brazialians who are cutting the rain forests?
Long before economic imperialists moved in, the peasants were practicing milpa, which is torching a piece of the jungle, planting crops in the ashes for a year or two until the soil's depleted, then doing it again.
Emerald Forest was a good flick, but it was recent history. Didn't mean to dis your family.
Make a living while you can.
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