Ernie Koontz
New Member
Some questions for any interested arborists?
We live in El Granda Ca., about 20 miles south of San Francisco along the Pacific ocean. No one is quite sure why Eucalyptus trees were planted here, but it is very clear they are out of hand and no one wants to pay to care properly for them. They have grown in so thick and huge around our home that we are constantly in danger from them, both the branches and the toppling of the giants themselves. In wet years they fall over, in dry years they catch fire.
This is an unincorporated area and so the care of the trees falls on our County road crew, who has only one truck for the entire county. A storm here recently brought three of the giants down on my street alone in this heavily residential area. The trees here are in an area of heavy wind and usually very wet soft soils. When the county is approached about thinning the trees, they say the homowner must get an arborist report that says which specific trees are an immediate threat to fall, and then they say they will consider removing the tree in question. Problem is, the trees continue to fall will every major storm, and yet the trees appear to be healthy. What can we do to get our county to own up to their responsibility to maintain and manage this Eucalyptus jungle we live in?
Some of the tree are hollow. Some have several dead branches, but these trees never seem to say die, except the native vegatation underneath them. It seems the county is hiding behind the arborists and discouraging the homeowner from having any avenue of redress.
Any comment are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Ernie Koontz
We live in El Granda Ca., about 20 miles south of San Francisco along the Pacific ocean. No one is quite sure why Eucalyptus trees were planted here, but it is very clear they are out of hand and no one wants to pay to care properly for them. They have grown in so thick and huge around our home that we are constantly in danger from them, both the branches and the toppling of the giants themselves. In wet years they fall over, in dry years they catch fire.
This is an unincorporated area and so the care of the trees falls on our County road crew, who has only one truck for the entire county. A storm here recently brought three of the giants down on my street alone in this heavily residential area. The trees here are in an area of heavy wind and usually very wet soft soils. When the county is approached about thinning the trees, they say the homowner must get an arborist report that says which specific trees are an immediate threat to fall, and then they say they will consider removing the tree in question. Problem is, the trees continue to fall will every major storm, and yet the trees appear to be healthy. What can we do to get our county to own up to their responsibility to maintain and manage this Eucalyptus jungle we live in?
Some of the tree are hollow. Some have several dead branches, but these trees never seem to say die, except the native vegatation underneath them. It seems the county is hiding behind the arborists and discouraging the homeowner from having any avenue of redress.
Any comment are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Ernie Koontz