The Weekly Tree Report - 2/10/25

The Weekly Tree Report

2-10-25, Thank you!

    Time really flies doesn't it. This week has been special for me and a lot of others up north where the liberty bell rings, but I still must pay homage to the trees. I don't have a lot to monologue about, so Go Birds and here is my second crack at this.

Story 1: What's under the Durag?

    I realized a long time ago that I had actually explored the world a lot more than I had originally thought. I mean sure, I haven't really been many places, but I at least have had the pleasure (or displeasure) to experience California. I didn't take many pictures, but the trees there were fairly unique. I didn't go close to the massive redwood forests that I would've admired, but I did find a lot of invasive Eucalyptus blue gum trees scattered around the place. But it was dry. Grass was as dead as I've seen since the drought we had in Texas. I guess that's just California for you though. There were some nice palm trees I remember but I also remembered how poorly some trees were planted when it came to proximity. I don't know a lot about trees, but something tells me you have to give the roots at least the chance to breathe. They're basically trees submerged under a layer of cement, which is never a good sign. Also, I am fairly curious to wonder how many trees in California had fallen due to earthquakes.

My picture!

    California did have nice beaches and food though. I had a good time there, except the one time an earthquake tremor rattled us in the middle of the night. I'd say it was an 7/10 overall.

Story 2: Collapse after collapse after collapse

    I used to go to my grandma's house all the time when I was little. I still do now, but not as often as I did in the past. One of my key memories growing up were the many alder trees around 7 minutes away from her house that were all wild and not naturally planted there. It's wild to go back on street view and see how many of them there actually were, because wow. So many of them are totally rotted out, fallen down and disposed of, dead and removed, or clinging onto dear life. Alder trees don't help themselves by being susceptible to decay and falling apart either, and I have no idea why that street was lined with them. But one by one, they slowly age and fall apart.

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Google Street View

Story 3: The Dagger

    When I went to elementary school so long ago, I remember this one warrior of a tree. Now, all trees are warriors. Think about it. We cut their limbs all the time to "prune" them, and when we want fruit, we take their children and just eat them. It's a brutal world I tell you what. But there was this one tree that stood alone right by the traffic light for over five years after the rest around it were removed. It was covered in vines, barely alive, yet there it stood. Standing the testament of time itself, its limbs tarnished and roots probably compromised, but it stood. Until it met a STIHL chainsaw. Then I never saw it again until I found it on google maps by going back in time. So while the building of an apartment complex was the dagger for this tree, it will forever live in my memories as a true warrior.

The Dagger Tree, picture from me!

Rant I: Maddox

    I may be stupid, but surely you have to wonder why people plant their trees in such precarious positions just to remove them. I don't have a picture of the tree in particular, but if it really is that close to the building, why even put it there anyways? It's like trying to raise a chicken in the pits of hell; it simply does not work. It's a formula that's proven not to work, so why do people do it? I've seen redwoods, those redwoods that grow to 300 feet tall and 50 feet in diameter, planted smack dab rubbing against the house. Like how do you make that mistake? Surely you research the trees you want before you plant them?

https://kproofing.com/fallen-tree-damaged-my-roof/

Finale II: Keeping the count.

    Thanks for tuning in to the best thing you'll ever read. Forget Harry Potter, I'm about to make you fly with my next report. Which will be the same as this report. I wanna start keeping track of how many of these I've made with a finale counter, so that you only know what number you're on if you know roman numerals and if you read to the end. Perfect right?

https://www.tripsavvy.com/redwood-forests-in-california-1478739