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Saw a 100 year old oak in Savannah last week that got me thinking about how we prune now
I was in Savannah last week and walked past this massive live oak that arborists have been caring for since the 1920s, and it made me think about how different the approach was back then. They used to just limb up everything and call it good, but now we're way more careful about cuts and timing. Does anyone else feel like we lost something simple along the way, or is the science just better now?
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amy_murphy8513d ago
Savannah has some of the oldest tree care records in the country, and those 1920s crews were working off books that just said cut it back hard and move on. My grandpa did line clearing for the power company in the 70s and he'd come home with stories about butchering trees because nobody questioned it. It's sad to think about what got lost, but I'd rather have a tree live 200 years under the new rules than 80 under the old ones.
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