RIP - Hadrian’s wall tree

[Ming the Merciless]

Maybe after their conviction, they will turn over a new leaf.

 

[Drago]

They should be given the Birch,

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

the birch only hurts for a while - which wooden be good enough

 

[Drago]

Off with their acorns!

 

[DRM]

They went against the grain of public opinion, and were investigated by root & branch officers from Special Branch, they should have twigged they'd be in big trouble, and now a prison sentence will axe their normal home lives.

 

[Time Waster]

Reward them with an overpaying sinecure as head of the forestry commission as a reward for cutting down a sycamore tree.

 

[Gillstay]

Reward them with an overpaying sinecure as head of the forestry commission as a reward for cutting down a sycamore tree.

Uhhh?

 

[Time Waster]

It's a non native species that might easily be cut down in native woodland. I think one less sycamore is a good outcome! BTW wasn't there a risk of was damaging archeology too being where it was.

 

[Gillstay]

It's a non native species that might easily be cut down in native woodland. I think one less sycamore is a good outcome! BTW wasn't there a risk of was damaging archeology too being where it was.

It wasn't in a native woodland and it might easily be left there, it gave people pleasure, it locks up carbon and it was criminal damage of someone else's property. I find it odd that you approve.

 

[Beebo]

I don’t think the tree had any formal protected status, but it was over 200 years old. And you can’t just go around chopping down trees that don’t belong to you. I doubt the punishment will be very harsh, even if anyone is found guilty.

Calling them non native is a bit odd when they have clearly been naturalised into the ecosystem. Every plant has to come from somewhere initially. And frankly it would be impossible to eradicate all sycamores from the UK.

As pointed out in the True Facts thread, the UK only has 35 actual native trees. So it would be very boring without a few new arrivals.

 

[DRM]

It wasn't in a native woodland and it might easily be left there, it gave people pleasure, it locks up carbon and it was criminal damage of someone else's property. I find it odd that you approve.

And it was sucking up rain water like it was going out of fashion, preventing the land getting waterlogged

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I don’t think the tree had any formal protected status, but it was over 200 years old

It was around in Robin Hood’s time in 13/14th century. Saw a film about it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Taking

It's a non native species that might easily be cut down in native woodland. I think one less sycamore is a good outcome! BTW wasn't there a risk of was damaging archeology too being where it was.

Not so long ago there weren't any/many native tries in Great Britain. Certainly none in northern England. There was ice all over it. I don't know if there were any trees on unglaciated bit in the south.

Not that I'm a fan of non-native species. But even the native species are relative newcomers.

 

[Drago]

Yoomans arent native to these Isles either, but here we are.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Yoomans arent native to these Isles either, but here we are.

Rocks are the only real natives.