什么时候不要觉得砍伐树木
树木为我们的生活带来了如此多的益处：他们清理空气，为野生动物，铸造阴影提供家园，帮助您的家更节能，他们可以提供食物并取决于他们的历史，具体取决于他们的年龄。那么何时可以砍下一个？我从未想过我会在一个地方成为一个决定。当我的父亲从我们家的前面切断了一个（据称）患病的树，在高中，我感到个人受伤。但现在我明白了。
当我买我的家时，房产上只有两棵树。An ill-placed Queen Palm against my foundation (thankfully doesn’t seem to be harming anything) and a small, anonymous tree that nicely shaded the back corner of my home 20 months ago, but has since taken on a grim pallor and dropped so many leaves they’re mulching themselves in the branches.
经过几个星期的在线搜索并将叶样品饲养到当地苗圃中，没有人能弄清楚它是什么。它没有果实，没有任何鲜花，是非落叶（常绿的），但不像我见过的任何其他常青。我们所知道的一件事：生病了。随着时间的进展，几个分支干燥，叶子变成了花边。由于我终于有一点周末时间倾向于清理和开始院子里的转变，我决定削减这棵树并用一些不仅给出原始树的好处的东西来替换它，但更多。果树将进入其位置（实际上，一个全尺寸的树和两个矮人），这将适合在我的计划中拥有尽可能多的食用植物。
Of course there are many other reasons to cut down an existing tree: it is a danger to your home and just trimming the limbs won’t render it safe or the roots could be tearing apart your plumbing and no other solutions have worked, or perhaps you have a different vision for your garden. I’m definitely not calling for a mass felling of trees, but I think that if it’s not working for your situation and you have a better solution in mind, don’t let free floating guilt get the best of you. In my case, cleaning up the area where the tree once stood will give me a mini orchard, which will benefit bees, birds, my friends and me.
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