Community Works to Save Old Trees

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – Locals villagers along the Old Chiang Mai-Lamphun Road are trying to save the century- old yang na trees as they are becoming more and more unhealthy from lack of air and nutrition.

 

According to Bunchong Somboonchai, head of a tree doctor volunteer group, said that there are about 900 yang na trees along the road and about 340 of them are in critical condition, being strangled by the concrete road, smothered by fumes of heavy traffic and generally living in a bad environment.

 

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Hate to say it, but those tree, although beautiful and magnificent in many ways, are now a real danger to traffic and businesses below them.  When I used to work in the logging industry we had a name for those large branches way high above - we called them "widow makers."  

I guess that's the Thai version of environmentalism.

interesting that the first thing home builders do is cut down all the trees; then after the house is built, landscape with new trees

Lived along that road several years back. One log through the roof into the bedroom, would have killed us if we were beneath it, and another landed on the car. Real danger.

 

The storm last year just north of Saraphi destroyed houses and cars.

 

But I can't see them ever being removed by anything other than nature. Too many spirits in them to cause trouble for whoever cuts them down.