Sean C. Morgan
It’s about time to start pruning trees, and the Sweet Home Tree Commission wants to make sure that pruning is done correctly.
“There’s an awful lot of topping in this town,” said Alice Smith, a Tree Commission member who also works as a botanist with the U.S. Forest Service. “Tree topping is not really pruning. It’s more like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
It makes a big mess out of the trees.
Often,…