St Helena : Jamestown's Trees Assessed
Submitted by Saint Helena Herald (Public Relations Information Office) 27.08.2009 (Article Archived on 10.09.2009)
As part of its responsibility to assess and avert potential danger from trees, ANRD has been assessing the condition of various trees in Jamestown in liaison with the Legal Lands and Planning Department.
TREES IN JAMESTOWN
As part of its responsibility to assess and avert potential danger from trees, ANRD has been assessing the condition of various trees in Jamestown in liaison with the Legal Lands and Planning Department.
Three trees recently gave rise to particular concern. They were assessed jointly by officers of both Departments and the decision made, reluctantly, to remove them in the interests of public safety. The trees were two banyans adjacent to The Run in the Duke of Edinburgh Playground that were found to be hollow, in one case split vertically and in the other rocking free at ground level; and the banyan at the entrance to Jamestown Community Centre. The latter was found to be dead apart from an independently growing spur on one side and the main dead trunk was found to be split vertically with the two parts moving independently in the wind. In view of the visual importance of this tree, consideration was given to the possibility of strapping but because the growing spur was on the side of the split trunk and supported by it, strapping was not practicable.
The importance of trees in Jamestown is keenly recognised by the St Helena Government and provision is being made in due course to replace the trees that have been removed. For this purpose ANRD are now propagating banyans at Scotland.
Darren Duncan CANRO
Karen Yon Acting HOD LL&P
August 2009
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