Saw something weird at an old cemetery in Savannah last weekend

I was visiting Bonaventure Cemetery with my wife, just walking around looking at the old trees. There's this huge live oak there, must be 300 years old, and someone bolted a sign right into the trunk. Like six lag bolts holding up a metal plaque. I get that they want to label the tree for tourists, but do they not know that kills the cambium layer? That tree is probably fine for now but in 20 years that's gonna be a rot pocket. Have any of you dealt with cities doing stuff like this to historic trees?

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gavina7315d ago

Yeah my wife says I care way too much about trees that will outlive me anyway.

riley_west15d ago

My neighbor planted a row of white pines back in 1987 and he's been dead for six years now. Those trees are worth maybe fifty bucks each and the county charges me to take them down when they fall on my fence. You're not wrong to care about them but let's be real here. What exactly are you getting out of it besides the pleasure of looking at something that doesn't pay you back?

ruby_patel2714d agoMost Upvoted

Does that mean you think trees have to "pay you back" in money or something? I had a buddy who bought a house with this giant old oak in the backyard, and he was gonna chop it down because it dropped acorns on his car. Then a heatwave hit and everyone else's yard was just dead grass, but his spot was like ten degrees cooler under that tree. He said it saved him like a hundred bucks on his electric bill that month alone. Not saying the pines are worth that, @gavina73, but idk, maybe there's more to it than just cash value, you know?