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Citizen complaint of the day: Somebody's killing the trees of Mass. Ave.
By adamg on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 8:52am
Tree being stripped.
A concerned citizen reports:
Multiple vandalized young trees along Mass Ave from Tremont St down to Washington St on the Even side. Someone is slowly killing and ripping the bark off of many of the recently planted trees along Mass Ave. some have bark being stripped away on trunks where others have whole branches ripped down. At 524 Mass Ave a strip of bark was ripped off the trunk of this tree last week. I pruned off the hanging strip last weekend but today another strip was ripped off on the same tree (shown in photo).
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Comments
Might be a beaver. Check for
Might be a beaver. Check for floods near the Muddy River.
Deer!
Looks like a nice buck rub!
Trees in front of commercial buildings?
Some of the business owners really seem to hate having trees in front of their stores, so those trees seem to die.
maybe..
Its all the bikers who chain the cycles to trees?
I don't think so
I would expect dents and chips, but not damage like that from bikes. Perhaps it's just the handy work of some drunk Northeastern students? I know I did some very regrettable things on Mass ave. when I attended.
Bike damage would be at a
Bike damage would be at a very specific height. Where was this damage?
Nice tree you've got there
Wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
Gentrification only goes so far.
The Mass Ave corridor is the bizarro Rubicon of Boston.
Waiting for Mumbles to don helmet, brandish sword and lead us across the street to victory against the teeming hordes of the southwest.
Mass Ave in the South End
Mass Ave in the South End still features several halfway houses, SROs, and methadone clinics. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the resident tweakers are relieving nervous ticks on the trees as they pace about the area. It's also highly possible that the armies of dog walkers that pass through have a few dogs which view the saplings as a tasty stick to chew on as well.