Some trees that after cutting down will grow back, hope this one can, will be 20-30 years though from the size of that.
Still angry about the apartment builders in the 1970s that cut down every one of the 200 year old oak trees out of the 20 acres of woods behind our house, breaks my heart to this day.
I wrote a poem in high school about an old tree removed for a parking lot. Our 50th reunion is in a couple weeks. I was an environmentalist back then. I started an organization to clean a polluted local creek. The last few years the water has been remarkably clear.
My wife was cleaning stuff out and found a photo of our house from when we bought it 30 years ago. All you could see was huge fir trees behind the house.
A developer went in and cut them ALL down (was fined a pittance, and sold the trees for lumber for good money). Now there is a McMansion staring down on us.
Although the older neighbors up the block said our house was the same and built in the woods their kids played in. Except the developer that built ours 50 years ago at least left a bunch of the trees on the property.
“Some trees that after cutting down will grow back, hope this one can, will be 20-30 years though from the size of that.”
Yeah some sprouts will grow back. Whether they survive to a full-blown tree? Possibly.
“cut down every one of the 200 year old oak trees out of the 20 acres of woods behind our house”
I wonder were there trees once where your house now stands whose cutting someone lamented.
This is true for me.