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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'
#22local 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.
What happens when an unstoppable instagram generation meets an immovable NIMBY.
The popularity of that tree predates Instagram. Insta might exacerbate the phenomenon but it's not new. E.g. Rick Steves and Cinque Terre.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#23local 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.
If it's found they felled the tree then they're in a lot of trouble.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#24This is really disappointing. Truly, some people just want to watch the world burn...
Destruction is so easy, quick, and satisfying. It's why the simple minded find it so enjoyable. Creation is hard, and requires a thousand times the work. Fuck that.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#25So? 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.
This is not about the instagrammers, it is about respect for heritage sites.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#26Most 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
Right, so we can just completely ignore the symbolic/iconic importance.
I don't know why I've seen Instagram mentioned several times already but it's recognition as a place of significant natural beauty and featuring in all sorts of media was WELL before some stupid website of people sharing photos existed.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#27This is a crime. A terrible senseless crime in a time of environmental destruction by mankind. What we need to do is take any seeds of this tree and plant 20-100 of its potential children in the area. We need to grind this tree up and make food and strengthen the soil for the future trees in the site.
Potentially we then need more cameras or tighter restrictions when it comes to visiting the site during off hours.
When a tree is felled it will take decades or centuries for a baby tree to offset the same amount of carbon per year. Therefore we need to make sure hundreds are planted with compost for the trees.
Can anyone with connections to site discuss with them or share ideas with the community?
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#28'we have reason to believe it was deliberately felled' One look at the base of that trunk and I think you can upgrade that to 'we know it was deliberately felled'.
Snark aside:
They need to make sure that someone wasn't trying to take down a different tree and made a mistake.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#29Slightly related: I always get surprised by how "small" Hadrian wall is. I mean, it was just to demarcate tthe point where the barbarians "should not" cross I believe? For sure it wasn't working as a regular wall to stop any invasions.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#30This is a crime. A terrible senseless crime in a time of environmental destruction by mankind. What we need to do is take any seeds of this tree and plant 20-100 of its potential children in the area. We need to grind this tree up and make food and strengthen the soil for the future trees in the site. Potentially we then need more cameras or tighter restrictions when it comes to visiting the site during off hours. Wh…
I was with you until the cameras. But I'd be happy to contribute to a bounty to catch whoever did this. I have similar feelings for tourists that climb on monuments as well (or that scratch their names into them).