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Article: Tree-friendly remodeling: A guide to protecting valuable trees from construction damage. (Garden).
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- Sunset
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- May 1, 2003
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During a remodel, bad things can and often do happen to trees. Among the mishaps we've observed recently in neighborhoods around the West: A lovely, large Japanese maple, dug up during the heat of summer, left for a month atop the soil with its rootball exposed, then planted just a few feet from a new foundation. Young oaks, also dug up during summer, replanted next to a sidewalk; they died by fall. The tops of tall liquidambars lopped off to make way for an expanded roof line. Magnolia branches, broken by trucks, left hanging from stubs. And root zones cut in half to dig basements or trenches for computer cables.
Such damage is no surprise: When a 1950s ranch ...