Save the giant sequoia "Geronimo" in France

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Jerome

Jerome

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Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

Hello trees'lovers
In France we try to save a giant sequoia in a cimetery, 150 years old ! In Martigné Briand, Maine & Loire. For your country, it is a young tree sequoia ! the mayor and his council want to cut down the tree, because they want to restore the cimetery and also to make it accessible for disable people in wheel chair. But there is possibilities to keep this sequoia. It is just bad french attitude.
We have a petition so can you tell to all your members of treeclimbing to sign it.
Here are some links :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxrdy_le-sequoia-de-martigne-briand-martigne-briand-06-02-20_news
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_164951896879115
http://arbresvenerables.free.fr
http://www.petitionduweb.com/sauvons_le_sequoia_de_Martigne_briand-8516.html
regards
Jerome Hutin
photographer of trees
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Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

It would help to do the petition in English as well. I signed on. Really dumb reason for taking that down. I don't see how it interferes with their plans!
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

It sounds like the mayor and planners are people of small vision if this tree is not causing major problems like heaving the building or something.

How many options have people set before them that take care of solutions for all the needs?

What's the diameter on that trunk? Like 3 meters? More?
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

A single solution were proposed to them during the council. And the mayor tell us that there is no other solution !
The circunference of this sequoia is 5,10 meters (nearly 16 feet)
I don't know if you saw some giant sequoia in France, but they have maximum 250 years old and 43 meters hight. This one, perhaphs 30 meters.

They also say that this sequoia have the roots destroying the graves ! and birds shits falling on the graves too !!!

Can you send us an american eagle to leave a big on the grave !? lol

the ground of the alley are made with sands, not good for wheel chairs.

Some treeclimber from my country will come soon to explain to the mayor what he can do, if he decides to change his mind. Thank you for your answers.
jerome
 

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They also say that this sequoia have the roots destroying the graves ! and birds shits falling on the graves too !!!

Can you send us an american eagle to leave a big on the grave !? lol

the ground of the alley are made with sands, not good for wheel chairs.


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A few weeks ago, two of us were looking for tall pines in southern Oregon. We stopped one more time to see the tallest known sugar pine: 255 feet tall.

Last time we visited in January, there was snow. The second time, warmer and no snow. And we saw cremated remains around the base of the tree where people walk. (PHOTO BELOW)

So some people don't view others walking on their dead relatives as disrespectful, because either they or the deceased appreciates being broken down into the earth, partially becoming part of the tree.

And the birds will drop their load on these cremains for sure.

Other old graveyards / cemeteries in this state, are just allowed to do their thing. Trees tilt tombstones. And the keepers either leave the tilting, or correct it. Leaving trees and graves. Jacksonville, Oregon's historic cemetery comes to mind.

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Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

If they want to restore the cemetery and also to make it accessible for disable people in wheel chair, paving can be installed above the roots. What kind of pavement will your French arborist recommend?

How did the tree get its name?
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

Naming trees after people is a bit odd in my book.

This naming is really odd. I don't know Geronimo's whole life story but I don't think that he was ever on the west side of the Sierra Nevadas to even see a sequoia. He did spend time in prison in Florida and Alabama. In that case a cypress bearing his name might work by some stretch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

Wich name we will give him , I think just SEQUO"Y"A
 

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Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

That's a nice tree. Shame to even think of cutting it down. I found a small stand of Gigantia on the Navarro River yesterday. Bout 100 yr. old. 4 ft. dia X 100 ft. tall. Really out of place but neat to think that someone that long ago had the idea of planting them. Mixed in the the coastal redwood it takes a sharp eye to distinguish them from the rest.

I hope there's a chance to save your tree. Bound to have some history behind it.
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto serves as an arboretum with some spectacular species of all types throughout the grounds. It is wheelchair accessible.


Your mayor seems a bit daft.
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

F'ing Bastards!

Amazing how old trees are cut down for the slightest things.

and sometimes, it's seems, the tree removal plan continues, just to win the battle; despite alternative plans that would not be hard to implement.
 
Re: Save the giant sequoia \"Geronimo\" in France

Dmn rt. Trees like that have a place in cemetaries, guardians of sorts. Some people just don't get anything unless it is sterilized and ordered to death. So much beauty could be salvaged, if we could help people understand that there are options available to achieve our own pursuits, without paving the whole world over in concrete and glass. You can't explain color to a blind man.
 
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