When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory
- Written by Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Turning a street tree into timber is much more respectful and useful than mulching it all.Author provided
Trees die. You don’t have to like it, but they do. And this comes as a surprise to some. A senior public servant once told one of us (Brack): “Trees don’t die; people kill them.”
Of course sometimes we kill trees,...
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