Missing trees

It takes remarkably little time to cut down and remove a tree that has been growing for decades or centuries. Trees or parts of trees, often much loved, disappear for many reasons; our seeming aversion to risk, during a strong wind, struck by disease, and for lesser reasons, too.

The photographs in the next section are just a sample of what happens all over the country. First, Britain's most valuable tree lost its amazing low-level, horizontal branch that extended over an enormously long distance. It was a tragic loss due to fear of collapse from rot near the stem.

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