Indeed how do you value trees? Apparently there are trees on some kind of register at Launceston Council but how they get on the register is a total mystery.
Even more mystifying is how these trees get a dollar value.
Councils these days are populated with all kinds of ‘experts’ but what kind of training might you need to equip you to put a dollar value on a tree – goodness knows.
To be sure there would be a dollar value relative to the timber in it, the fuel in it, the amount of mulch you might be able to recover, the fruit you might be able to harvest, etc. But for a street tree, how do you put a dollar value on them?
If a tree presents a serious risk it is perhaps worth something to someone as income for the 'risk removal'. If the allocated budget for a project is say $160,000 – as it is/was(?) understood that it was/is – the percentage allocated to ‘tree removal’ might well be their value.
Anyway it would be interesting if someone could estimate the value of this particular set of trees on whatever basis.
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