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Aging trees, falling branches K EL SEY A MOS News Editor The historic trees around campus, while loved by many, can be an unpredictable threat. Last weekend a large branch of the Pterygota alata tree near Ba-Le restaurant fell to the ground, where it remained cordoned off with yellow caution tape until late Sunday. No one was hurt. Interim director of Buildings and Grounds Management Roxanne Adams said that the branch probably fell because of a combination of factors, including wind, heavy dew, the weight of the branch and the age of the tree. “The tree doesn’t function like that in nature,” she said, adding that “the tree was there before the sidewalk ... and the roadway.” Adams reported that the fallen branch exhibited no signs of rot or other damage that could explain its breaking off. She said that although older trees like this one are pruned and monitored for such risks, this fallen branch came as a surprise. “From the external look of the tree there was nothing wrong with it,” she said.
The tree is part of a collection of historic trees in the area that were planted in the mid 1900s by a world-renowned botanist. Trees in this collection have fallen before. Adams recalled that a few years ago, a keawe tree in front of Sinclair library fell in the middle of the day with someone under it. According to Adams, there was no sign that there was anything wrong with the tree before it fell. “What we’re doing now because the trees are 50-80 years old … [is] we’re trying to work at backing up the genetics of the trees so it won’t go away... and then try to plant more of them so we can take out the older ones,” said Adams. The problem is balancing safety with community concerns. The keawe tree, before it fell, was large and shady. “We get so much backlash from the university and the community ... because it’s such a historic collection,” said Adams. The Pterygota alata will not suffer any major harm due to the fallen branch, according to Adams. “We’ll put a clean cut on it, and there is another branch coming out. We’ll check to see if that branch has a strong enough attachment to the trunk. If it looks like it has a weaker attachment, we’ll remove it,” she said. “We’ll continue to watch the tree.”
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