When going through construction, the single most important thing you can do is put up fencing around the drip line of your trees.
This collage campus was putting up a new science building; they did the RIGHT thing:
By the way, a year after the building was completed, the trees were flourishing!
Where is the drip line?
What else can builders do?
Well, not remove the trees, for a start.
Fencing is the next most important thing. After that, they can
- avoid parking vehicles under or near the trees. Protecting the drip line is so important so that the roots do not get crushed.
- avoid tying things to the trees.
- don't nail anything into the bark.
- nothing piled under the trees i.e. NOT soil, not equipment, nothing!!! Trees are not poles.
- appreciate the beauty of the trees :-) Maybe sit under the trees and take their lunch in the shade while they appreciate.
Please click to go to other ways to help trees...
#10 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Clean Up and Help Each Other
#9 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Leave Leaves
#8 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Go Organic
#7 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Transplant Properly
#6 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Watering and Balance the Elements
#5 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Be Considerate. Come from the Tree’s Point of View
#4 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Advocate to keep trees. Think Wild. Speak for Trees.
#3 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Insist on Construction Care and Fencing
#2 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Remove “Stuff” and keep the weed whackers away.
# 1 Thing to Do to HELP Trees: Let them Breathe. FILL KILLS.
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Basia Alexander
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Tree Lover. Co-founder, workshop leader, and author.
I listen to the trees' messages and share their wisdom.
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My passion is to upshift people's thinking about trees and Nature so that all of us together can co-create a livable planet.
