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Big Tree on #16

Some of the recent wind/thunder storms have caused quite a bit of damage to our tree inventory here at Highland. Part of our tree managment plan is to prune and/or remove any dead, dying or diseased trees and limbs. This past weekend a rather large tree on the right hand side of #16 (down in the valley) lost a large limb. The entire tree has been leaning for some time. We have now cut the tree down to avoid any injury and/or further damage. This maple was not strategic in any way. This is a good time to remind our members about walking in our woodlots, when you enter them looking for stray golf balls you may encounter some dangerous tree situations (hung up branches, etc). We do our best to eradicate these situations, but the woodlots are vast and we cannot get to all of it during the golf season. Here is a video of Brian Zap of Zaps Tree Service dropping the large Maple leaner on #16. Dropping a tree of this size is rather difficult, especially one that is on such a lean. We try to do as much tree work as we can ourselves, but sometimes things are best left to people that do this everyday....

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  1. AnonymousAugust 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    Hey Greig
    That was a cool idea to videotape that.

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