thankyou
wearepeople for that list...always enjoy lists here..
now, i just feel, from reading a few recent posts, that i should make yet another statement on
Why trunk bark should Not be taken from trees..
..it is unsustainable and harmful....
even if fairly small strips are taken, you will see after a while (check in, say, a year) that branches start to die..the overall health of the tree begins to diminish..in cases of larger amounts of bark they can eventually die..
now, once a strip of bark is taken, that's it (unless you want to kill the tree, which in the case of wild plants is completely unethical and environmentally damaging) ..and furthermore, as branch die-back is now happening, you've further diminished the amount of material the tree can make..
another important point:
wildharvesting from reserves, pristine areas etc is unethical!
as stated again and again, the whole TWIGS are equivalent to bark in content...
if you're an ally, a friend, of the trees, then you'll understand eventually that taking of bark is not in mutual interest..
nor in the interests of the environment..
if you've spent years actually putting something back into the earth and GROWING the trees, i think you'll especially not want to take bark from them..
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