Devastated locals are entangled in a heated debate over what to do next after the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree was deliberately chopped down.
found felled earlier this weekA 16-year-old boy was initially arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after the tree was found cut on Thursday morning, and he was released on bail on Friday.over the slashing on Friday night and remains in police custody.
While some experts say it could be possible to regrow the tree, others want the downed timber to be transformed into a memorial.that the stump was “healthy” and that they might be able to coppice the tree, which is where new shoots grow from the trunk’s base.“Because of the condition of the stump, it may well regrow a coppice from the stump, and if we could nurture that then that might be one of the best outcomes, and then we keep the tree.
Rob Ternent, head gardener at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, added that the tree would start growing again but “won’t ever be the same shape or as good of a tree as it was”.“The growing season’s coming to an end now but by spring next year it will have some life in it. It’ll probably be about 8ft tall, but it’ll be lots of singular branches, more bushy.
“This was part of the cultural identity of northeast England. People are going to be really upset,” he said. Local Kathryn Read told the outlet that she took her Austrian-born boyfriend, now her husband, to Sycamore Gap on his first visit to the UK in 2002.Both are now distraught. Many have offered their suggestions of what should be done next in the wake of the tragedy, with some differing opinions causing heated debates online.
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