Looks like a quick and dirty girldle attempt to me. If those cuts around the main stem are deep enough, it’ll absolutely be a death sentence for that tree.
Vyedr
Those cuts go deep enough that this tree has been girdled, and cannot be saved. Contact the NYC Dept of Parks and Rec and let them know.
reddituserwhoreddit
Attempt to kill the tree…which they have succeeded.
FadingForestGDN
Dutch elms disease travels through the vascular system.
If the disease was noticed in a branch, inspection cuts are made traveling down the trunk. If symptoms are still showing in the vascular system further cuts are made.
If the disease gets to the roots, it can spread through the roots to other elms, so to prevent the spread, the sever the entire vascular system by girdling the tree and will remove the tree.
Freebird_mojo
I don’t get it. Why ,why, why? That took a good deal of time and effort. If you find out what the deal is will you please let us know?
Bean-Swellington
Looks like somebody is trying to send a methage
sirspores
Most likely a DED infested tree. There are probably other healthy elms nearby that they don’t want infected through root grafting, so they performed a banded girdle (though when we do it we remove the bark between the two girdling cuts to actually create a band) to eliminate the cambium and greatly reduce the risk of transmission through the root system. It’s usually done as a short order “fix” to buy them time to remove it while lowering the risk of infection spreading.
Y-wood-U-dew-sap
They are trying to kill the tree
grizzlyironbear
That’s a dead tree. Enough has been ringed that it won’t survive. Chances are that it was infested by a bug or mold and had to be killed.
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Looks like a quick and dirty girldle attempt to me. If those cuts around the main stem are deep enough, it’ll absolutely be a death sentence for that tree.
Those cuts go deep enough that this tree has been girdled, and cannot be saved. Contact the NYC Dept of Parks and Rec and let them know.
Attempt to kill the tree…which they have succeeded.
Dutch elms disease travels through the vascular system.
If the disease was noticed in a branch, inspection cuts are made traveling down the trunk. If symptoms are still showing in the vascular system further cuts are made.
If the disease gets to the roots, it can spread through the roots to other elms, so to prevent the spread, the sever the entire vascular system by girdling the tree and will remove the tree.
I don’t get it. Why ,why, why? That took a good deal of time and effort. If you find out what the deal is will you please let us know?
Looks like somebody is trying to send a methage
Most likely a DED infested tree. There are probably other healthy elms nearby that they don’t want infected through root grafting, so they performed a banded girdle (though when we do it we remove the bark between the two girdling cuts to actually create a band) to eliminate the cambium and greatly reduce the risk of transmission through the root system. It’s usually done as a short order “fix” to buy them time to remove it while lowering the risk of infection spreading.
They are trying to kill the tree
That’s a dead tree. Enough has been ringed that it won’t survive. Chances are that it was infested by a bug or mold and had to be killed.