They are in a tree farm. But decorative trees are another matter. They take generations to reach maturity.
And every few generations Tiger Stadium will expand and another few trees will need to be culled and replaced with saplings in other locations. For some reason I hear the Lion King song in my head...
Hardly. Like "trends" you can't determine a life expectancy with a single measurement, now, could we. What's the average? Taking that info (average life expectancy of a tree) one fell tree for thousands and thousands of peeps to have many good times seems like a good trade off. That's not factoring in the almighty dollar. We can put up pavillions if/where we need shade. They don't drop leaves in pools, yards, suck the foundation from homes, etc. I love trees. Hell I donated and planted some at the ball park my girls played when they expanded and built new fields. A parent said to me, "We'll never sit in any shade from them." I pointed to the big trees around the other fields and said, "Maybe so but somebody had to plant them."
There is no data, obviously there are too many trees living under various conditions. I mean you can grow a live oak tree in Texas, but it will never get as big or live as long as one in south Louisiana or Florida where the rainfall is higher. But a live oak can live 600 years if not chopped down, struck by lightning, or poisoned by humans. There is one in Charleston that is 1500 years old. It should be a crime to kill such a tree. The Oaks on campus will never live that long because of human impact. They have pavement on their roots, their low bracing limbs have been pruned away, and they are badly impacted by auto exhausts and the acid rain that has already killed the Spanish moss that made campus look like a fairy land in the 1940's. The trees lining LSU streets will probably never see 200, even if they are not cut down.
Saw 'em up and build a much needed, much bigger trophy case for all the national championship trophies we're gonna get !!
You can't compare bradford pears to those oak trees. Bradford pears suck. Good gust of wind comes, and watch those bastards split right down the center.
The oak trees in Atlanta have a root system that is about 10 feet in diameter and they look like worms, much different from the oaks in LA. Trying to move an oak a big as those likely would not work. The root system could be 50 feet in diameter.
