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Joyce Coomer: On Fencing. There is also an issue of money 'Everything dies eventually, and if trees have lived 50 years or longer with fencing attached to them, apparently using them as a support for a fence doesn't hurt them . . . From my observations through the years, trees used as fence posts have a much longer lifespan than those that are brutally mangled under the misguided theory of "saving" them, so we need to be complaining about extensive, unnecessary trimming of trees (which most often kills them because they are trimmed too much) and the unnecessary removal of trees for any reason, instead of complaining about someone using a tree as a fence post. ' - JOYCE COOMER Click on headline for complete commentary By Joyce Coomer Personal Commentary There were trees on the farm where I grew up (and on many farms around) that had to be at least 75 to 100 years old or even older, judging from their girth, and that sometimes had three or four types of fencing attached to them; apparently putting holes in the trees (I never saw sap coming out of those holes in the spring time.) didn't bother these particular trees. Everything dies eventually, and if trees have lived 50 years or longer with fencing attached to them, apparently using them as a support for a fence doesn't hurt them. I've been cut numerous times by barbed wire, sometimes deeply, and have never had an infection nor gotten ill from such injury. Barbed wire that is out in the air, washed by the rain and dried by the sun, is no more apt to cause an infection than would a cut from a zipper on a pair of jeans freshly washed and dried. Just because anything has been done for years doesn't mean it's right and that includes denigrating other people in any form or fashion just because they are different from you. Pounding those posts into the ground requires -- I don't know how many ways I can state this -- money a lot of farmers simply don't have; that equipment is not free. Most of the time, trees used as fence posts are owned by whomever is doing the fencing. If they are not, discussions are held about which trees to use, which are line trees (Line trees used as fencing supports provide quick visual reference for where property lines run.), which trees would be valuable as lumber, etc. Fencing is not, at least by country standards, an activity done in the dark (metaphorically). Not only that, trees that are planted by someone are not usually in the midst of a woodland. Using trees as fence posts does not destroy them as does the current practice of dozing a 12' strip on either side of a fence that runs through woodland -- something I'm seeing more and more. I assume that 12' strip is dozed so the equipment that pounds in fence posts can be used. Yes, we need trees to produce oxygen so we can live, but another current practice is causing me much more concern than whether or not someone has put a fencing staple in a tree -- the practice of clearing land for no purpose that I can see other than being able to complain at the local hangout about how much mowing you have to do. (I overheard one woman telling a shop owner that she mowed six acres weekly.) Extensive, unnecessary mowing, no matter how fuel-efficient a mower may be, produces emissions that are harmful to all plant and animal life on the planet. Come to think of it, so does using that equipment to pound in a fence post instead of manually digging a post hole. From my observations through the years, trees used as fence posts have a much longer lifespan than those that are brutally mangled under the misguided theory of "saving" them, so we need to be complaining about extensive, unnecessary trimming of trees (which most often kills them because they are trimmed too much) and the unnecessary removal of trees for any reason, instead of complaining about someone using a tree as a fence post. Joyce M. Coomer This story was posted on 2014-02-06 09:52:47
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