I’ll be darned, I talked to them this winter, MWA Gun, when I was having some trees brought in to my place. They do excellent work. I hope Auburn chooses them for the service. There’s none better.
The more I think about it, the more I think my on the fly max. estimate of 15 ft is probably too conservative. 25 ft maybe? But the higher you go, the trickier it gets, and the more likely to have root damage. Bigger than that is doable, just not good for the tree because of all the loss to the root system* Anyway, I mainly just drove the dozer - I’m not the foremost tree expert.
*There might be a way though. Tree farms exist that specialize in this stuff. My experience is with wild trees and wild root systems, but tree farms prune the roots of the oaks while they are growing in order to produce a smaller but still viable root ball. I don’t know the sizes on those, though.
I read/heard somewhere (can’t remember where, as I live in Montgomery and this is the talk of the town so there are stories everywhere) that Auburn has actually been growing replacement trees for years in case something (man-made or natural) ever happened to the trees. Anyone know if this is true?
Now, I think the man should suffer the penalties outlined by law. However, I don’t think any such punishment should be defined by the trees’ legacy. Breaching nostalgia should not be a crime.
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Perhaps one week each year for 130 years doing community service as a gardener at Auburn U.
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What an interesting sentencing model. Next, we can order convicted pedophiles to burn off their community service at daycare centers.
So if somebody were to torch Martin Luther King’s church in Montgomery and brag on a radio show about choosing the church specifically due to its history and significance, should they be tried the same as somebody who torched any other Baptist Church in any city? (Assume nobody is hurt in the church burnings.)