The tree team that made such an impact on Newcastle a couple of years ago is finding that the universe has a way of rewarding us all.
You have to read this: a friend overseas noticed the link – don’t you just adore the internet?
The story is ‘Ausgrid contractors have left a stand of trees in Melbourne Street, East Gosford, looking like nothing more than degraded wooden artefacts.’
The joy for us is that it’s brought to you by a ‘concerned* resident’ well known to Laman Street campaigners.
How’s the irony in this: ‘ There is no legal or moral excuse for such destructive work.’
I wonder how many years it will take before the trees recover? Maybe they never will. How awful to have to see trees or a streetscape ruined for no reason.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer etc.
Below are some reminders of the work this concern* brought to Newcastle.
Manna from heaven – the slight movement in these trees in the 2007 storm enabled ‘experts’ to convince the then council to allow sturdy healthy trees to be removed
Tags: karma, there is a God
Save Our Figs and other trees in Newcastle 
June 20, 2013 at 1:02 am |
From the linked article:
“I have taught horticulture and arboriculture at TAFE and have worked in municipal tree management and as an acting commissioner in the NSW Land and Environment Court,” he [Phil Hewett] said.
“There is no legal or moral excuse for such destructive work.”….
…unless of course, there’s an ill-planned and underfunded development scheme as in Newcastle which finds heritage trees a very inconvenient impediment. Then any avenue of thriving natural vitality is deemed expendable.
March 25, 2014 at 11:16 am |
Er, what’s that about? Our blog for sale??