August/September 2016

August/September 2016

300 High St. – Unfortunately the large Beech tree at 300 High St will have to come down.  The tree is in severe decline and recently lost a large limb above the sidewalk.  There is a lot of deadwood in the tree and the proximity to the building and the sidewalk is concerning.

9-19-16 Beech at 300 High1 9-19-16 Beech at 300 High2

 

22 Woodman – The maple tree shown below was badly damaged in the August 11 storm.  What is remaining will have to be removed.

9-6-16 22 Woodman 1

 

41/43 & 47 Brainerd – There were several trees in the adjoining backyards that were badly damaged by the August 11 storm.  What is remaining will have to be removed.

9-6-16 41 Brained2 9-6-16 41 Brainerd1

 

Foss Hill – One of the largest Oak Trees on our campus was struck by lightning in the August 11 storm.  For safety reasons this tree will have to be removed.

9-6-16 Foss Oak29-6-16 Foss Oak1

 

Davidson Arts Center – A large Birch Tree in the NE corner of the South side patio will have to be removed.  There is significant rot at the base of the tree.  The risk of collapsing on the building is too high to leave the tree standing.  We had hoped to just do an extensive prune, unfortunately not much of the tree would remain.  Sadly, this tree will have to be removed.

9-6-16 DAC Birch whole tree1 9-6-16 DAC Birch1 9-6-16 DAC Birch2

 

77 Home – As you can see the tree dropped some limbs in the August 11 storm.  Much of the remaining tree has to be removed for building clearance.  This would leave very little left and so the tree has to be removed.

9-6-16 77 Home1

 

330 High Street – Unfortunately we have lost another Elm to what appears to be Dutch Elm Disease.  This is a very large tree, with very large limbs.  This tree has to be removed.

9-6-16 Elm 330 High1

 

On August 11 Wesleyan had an extreme thunderstorm that dropped over 5″ of rain in under two hours.  Alongside the rain was an extravagant display of lightning.  All of this adds up to some serious damage to our tree population.  Due to the nature of the storm, I was unable to make a posting for all the removals.  In lieu of that posting, please see below some of the images of what the storm left behind.

Birch Cross St Birch Cross St2 Birch Freeman Cross St Limb Maple Fountain Ave Maple Pine St Pine Cady Pine Washington St Sky Morning After

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