MzHopsing
ArboristSite Member
Hi guys (and gals!), I'm not so new here, I just had to start a new account, 'cause I lost my old e-mail and other info...
Anyway, I've posted some pictures below of the damage Union Pacific did to our nearby property in their attempt at reducing foliage near their tracks. Earlier this spring it looked like they successfully killed this grove of trees, whose identification I would dearly like to know! If it weren't for their size, I wouldn't be sure you could call them trees, they proliferate like weeds; but they are rather pretty in their little group there. We managed to spare them being razed to the ground when the power company came through to clear the land near their power lines last summer, but then UP enthusiastically came through with their damn herbicide the following month. You can see the huge swath where there used to be grass.
I've included a few close ups where you can see the little bunches of berries on the top of some of the higher branches. There's so many other trees in the vicinity, it was hard to isolate them in pictures. They're not very tall trees at all, and their "wood" is very soft. They're the short trees closest to the path. Their uniqueness is in the way the branches all kind of bend at a slight angle this-way-and-that. Neat effect in the bunch that they grew in. Most of them have definitely recovered, to UP's dismay, I'm sure. You can see them sprouting up in multitudes on the pathway! I wonder how well they'll grow, however.
Any help in identifying would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
Ruth
MzHopsing
Anyway, I've posted some pictures below of the damage Union Pacific did to our nearby property in their attempt at reducing foliage near their tracks. Earlier this spring it looked like they successfully killed this grove of trees, whose identification I would dearly like to know! If it weren't for their size, I wouldn't be sure you could call them trees, they proliferate like weeds; but they are rather pretty in their little group there. We managed to spare them being razed to the ground when the power company came through to clear the land near their power lines last summer, but then UP enthusiastically came through with their damn herbicide the following month. You can see the huge swath where there used to be grass.
I've included a few close ups where you can see the little bunches of berries on the top of some of the higher branches. There's so many other trees in the vicinity, it was hard to isolate them in pictures. They're not very tall trees at all, and their "wood" is very soft. They're the short trees closest to the path. Their uniqueness is in the way the branches all kind of bend at a slight angle this-way-and-that. Neat effect in the bunch that they grew in. Most of them have definitely recovered, to UP's dismay, I'm sure. You can see them sprouting up in multitudes on the pathway! I wonder how well they'll grow, however.
Any help in identifying would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
Ruth
MzHopsing