Anyone know why for the past couple of days a mechanical chopper has been working its way through the first few rows of 3 or 4 year old pine trees near the arboretum (adjacent to the Parkway)?
They are being left in neat rows (not unlike the ones set up after the bushfires to get rid of all the material left over) but are in no way ready to be used for timber production.
Buffer zone for bushfire season?
Lots of xmas in September parties?
Cutting down trees to make way for planting more trees?
If the trees did have to go – surely they could have waited another couple of months and let us go and grab one each for Christmas?
peterh said :
Actually, I kind of got the idea that if a black hole swallowed Europe, eventually we’d get sucked into it too. Not sure that a few hundred kilometres of ocean would be enough to stop that.
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tylersmayhem said :
apart from building a massive particle accelerator?
my point is they are waaaay away from Australia.
europe may get a facelift, won’t worry us…
peterh said :
Well, at least the Swiss are used to having great holes in things I guess …
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Whats wrong with the Swiss?
astrojax said :
it will only knock out the swiss – no great loss there…
Surely the universe must now implode?
Wasn’t that supposed to happen yesterday?
well, actually, all they’ve done is to make sure a beam can make it round the breezy twenty seven kays of circuit (almost as cold as a canberra morning at 1.9K [= -217C]) and won’t collide beams and create earth-swallowing holes until early next month.
no need to worry about the elections, or the future of arboretums, then..?
leave me the birds and the bees, please!
A dollar and a half, that is…
And you don’t have to pay half a dollar and a half just to see them.
Loquaciousness said :
as long as they put away the ddt.
So . . . chop down pine trees to . . . plant more (wollemi and lone) pine trees?
Look, I love gardens, trees etc but sadly this project is a symbol of the govt’s totally upside down priorities.
ED – arboretums house both native and non-native species
Loquaciousness said :
Botanical Gardens and Arboretum’s are usually very different both in aim and in appearance. Botanical Gardens usually house plantings of native flora while arboretums generally are the plantings of exotic international tree and shrub species. Their purpose is not only to be pretty, but also to bolster endangered specie stocks and to educate.
Society cannot simply bundle all money into health & education while allowing other life forms to dwindle into nonexistence. This is the purpose of things like science and arboretums – where our forestry scientists learn what’s what.
As for sums, feasibilities would have been completed as with all gov projects. The aim may not necessarily be to make money, the same with other public and social works.
peterh said :
but we might have spots on our apples!
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Loquaciousness said :
but we are never going to get a swinging hotspot….
I was wondering the same thing about why they were removing the trees, I mean, it’s not even christmas yet.
L, it isn’t when it’s being overseen by Nero, the local mayor and his pyromaniac Emergency Services Dept
tylersmayhem said :
Yeah. Coz wood isn’t valuable at all.
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Loquaciousness said :
And the trees outlived the whingers there too.
peterh said :
And a pink hotel!