Ya know, if you're gonna illegally chop down a tree, at least steal the wood as well... Just saying...
Vandals don't give a damn about what they destroy. What a waste this.
Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
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Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#12local landowner* was getting cross with all the people coming to see it. I've had a couple of run ins with them walking the dog there * edit: i mentioned this on another forum and was corrected- the land is owned by the National Trust, my run ins were probably with a tennant farmer.
I wonder if such tennant can be evicted.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#13I'm sure you can do "tooth pattern CSI" on a chain saw cut to prove which chain saw made it.
You can do better than that, cleaning a saw to the point where there is no debris on it from a recent cut is pretty difficult. I'm fairly sure my saw still has bits on it from trees in Canada and that's 15 years ago. This tree is pretty unique, you're going to have a very hard time proving that bits found that match the tree are from any other tree that you may have cut, especially if you can't show where you did that.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#14Went there a few times, it was a beautiful tree in a beautiful landscape. It's sad to think I can no longer go see it again.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#15Most of modern Scotland was forest up until a fairly recent time. The felling of one tree is an instagram tragedy; the felling of one billion is an economic statistic.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#16So?
It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
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#17The tree has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree
Big misstep from the article not publishing a picture of the tree standing.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#18Most of modern Scotland was forest up until a fairly recent time. The felling of one tree is an instagram tragedy; the felling of one billion is an economic statistic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Forest
Perspective on "fairly recent" from wiki:
> An examination of the earliest maps of Scotland suggests that the extent of the Caledonian Forest remnants has changed little since 1600.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#19So? It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
Yes, it's just a tree.
A new tree can grow.
The Philistine instagrammers will be disappointed. So sad.
It's not a Roman tree.
A new tree literally grows (on) trees.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#20So? It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
There's more narrative here. Trees fall all the time. Someone who feels entitled to the level of reclusiveness of one small patch of Earth taking something away from all other humans does not happen all the time.