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WELL, IT APPEARS the rainy fall weather has arrived, which is a good thing. As is seeing snow up in the mountains.

In projects that require digging or grading, trees are too often regarded simply as objects or obstacles. Roots that are inconveniently located in relation to the project tend to get cut, crushed, ...

A Reddit user tried to save a tree after making an alarming discovery. In a recent post on the r/Arborists subreddit, a user shared a photo of a tree that had been under duress for over a decade.

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.