Recently, two very large tulip popular trees fell in Tregaron’s forest. The winter has been hard on everyone, especially the old trees at Tregaron. We hired a firm to remove the fallen trees, which involved cutting the trees into sections to be placed on a small truck that can maneuver Tregaron’s trails, delivering the sections to a location where a chipper can be brought in, and chipping the wood into very small pieces that can be spread on the paths at Tregaron. It took the firm 165 man hours during the months of January and February. The bill for tree removal work was more expensive because it was substantially harder and more dangerous than regular landscape and maintenance work. It cost the Tregaron Conservancy $8,580 to remove these two huge poplar trees from the trails that the public use and enjoy. Next the firm returned to work on a oak tree that had fallen from a neighbor’s property onto Tregaron’s land during a storm. This oak tree removal has cost the Conservancy over $10,000. More bad news: the top of a birch tree fell two weeks ago, landing on top of an original rhododendron grove. The snowstorms have kept the crew from returning, but work starts this week. So, yes, when three and half trees fall in Tregaron, the Conservancy hears it. And so does our bank account.
