Old Trees Preservation
Comments focus on remarkable old or giant trees, their growth and survival in urban areas despite threats like vandalism and human interference, and ideas for planting resilient species like CRISPR-modified hardwoods.
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It is not the wind, it is the sheep which eat the trees before the grow big. Trees grow in some gardens and parks, so it is possible.
I have seen the effect of neighboring trees on cut trees in the campgrounds of British Columbia. Tree stumps left when a tree was removed and then fully covered in bark as if it were a tree with no branches. No cut surface to be seen.
Imagine CRISPR hardwood trees that rapidly grow as tall as Redwoods while maintaining their broad cover and proportions. Would be great both for lumber and to plant in neighborhoods. A Navi/night-elf tree for every subdivision. Having the view and the shade in hot weather may be worth the risks of permanent shading and falling limbs. As long as they're sterile.
You can plant trees that doesn't have pavement-breaking roots.
Source article from 2022 (of which this is meta about): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-old-man-an...
trees 300-500 years old are not unusual. organisms can grow without blowing themselves or their ecosystems up.
Can you expand on the difference between climate change friendly and non climate change friendly trees, for the noobs like me?
Interested if places with evergreen trees (e.g. PNW) fair better than areas with mostly deciduous trees?
You are neglecting all the effort the trees put into growing big enough, since probably before you were born, so you could readily use them.
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