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Girdled Trees

Girdled Trees

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Girdled Trees

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Location: De Haan, Oostende, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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♏️anuel 🧭

March 16, 2025

Selectively removing unwanted species from a forest (e.g. exotics, non-native species in an unwanted location) can be done in a number of ways. Cutting down (also called “low cutting”) is obvious, but it causes a lot of disruption (other trees are damaged) and a messy forest floor that is more difficult to access for further maintenance.
An environmentally friendly alternative is tree ringing, where the sap flow is interrupted to slowly kill the tree.

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♏️anuel 🧭

May 21, 2025

Tree ringing (also called girdling) is a method of removing a circular strip of bark, including the underlying bark (phloem), around the trunk or branch of a tree. This interrupts the flow of sugars from the leaves to the roots.

Why is this done?

Tree killing: It is a method of gradually killing a tree without immediately cutting it down.

Improve wood quality: In forestry, ringing can improve wood quality because the tree stops growing but still absorbs water.

Increase fruit production: In fruit growing, it is sometimes done to stimulate flowering or fruit set by causing stress.

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