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Loss of trees within the city

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Subject: Loss of trees within the city
From: Peter Milburn <>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:53:28 +1100
The ACT only survives by virtue of the income generated from housing development. The Bush Capital was doomed when self-government was introduced.

Something else that concerns me is the rate of attrition of mature trees within the city be they native or exotic. With every storm that passes a tree somewhere loses a branch and the next day I hear the inevitable clatter of its removal. Has it become too easy to remove landscape trees?

Additionally, there seems to be a close correlation between building work and the death of adjacent mature Eucalypts despite the cute little fences they are provided with for protection.

Perhaps we are literally heading towards being a bush rather than a tree capital.

Milburn
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Dr P.J Milburn
Technology Specialist
Australian Cancer Research Foundation Biomolecular Resource Facility
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
GPO Box 334
Canberra ACT 0200
'Phone +61 2 6125 4326
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