Sheffield City Council's tree felling programme that targets the felling of half (17,500) of Sheffield's street trees to be replaced with small saplings that typically are near 1/200th of the mass of the felled trees, where many of which have been planted at the wrong time of year and many more are now suffering during the summer heat wave having as few as 10% of the leaf cover they should have by now as they are NOT being watered adequately i.e. recommendations are for 20-30 litres of water per day when the actual watering is likely that amount per month (if that) resulting in a sorry state for Sheffield's streets of dying replacement trees as this video illustrates the difference between saplings which are being watered by residents and saplings which are being left for Sheffield City Council's contractor Amey to water and look after which given the state of a large number of replacement trees is just not proving sufficient.

Tree campaigners have been urging Sheffield's residents to take matters into their own hands and water the saplings on their streets with at least 20 litres per day as at this rate many of the saplings won't survive summer 2018, that's if they survive the vandalism from local yobs breaking branches and snapping tree trunks of hundreds of new trees. Which is another illustration of the unintended consequences of Sheffield City Councils disastrous tree felling programme at a time of climate change and street pollution hotspots that the large trees had been busy providing cover for and acting to soak up street level pollution.

By Anika Walayat

http://www.walayatfamily.com

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