The school noticed that some trees had stopped growing at the top. The top branches had no new leaves in the spring. Those branches were all bare when the rest of the tree was bursting out with bright green leaves.
So they sent for the tree doctor to come and have a look and to tell the school what was wrong with them.
He said the top branches were in danger of snapping off and falling on the children playing on the school field.
He said that the trees were dying off from the top and it was the strange weather we had in the last few years that had made it happen.
Where you live, your trees are used to very cold weather and having lots and lots of snow. Sometimes you have so much snow you have to send for the snow plough to clear the snow. Your trees are used to really really hot weather and not having enough water for some of the time.
These trees got a shock when we has some really cold weather like snow that you get and the other year they got a shock when when it was really hot like it is now. Another year we had so much rain that the field was flooded and the trees had too much water to drink up.
The poor trees couldn't cope with all these weather changes and started to die off from the top.
If you look at the picture of the pile of tree trunks you will see all the brown bits....that is where the tree had died off and the white bits is where the tree is OK. The tree doctor said sadly all the trees had to be chopped down before they fell down. When the school was closed for school holidays they came and chopped them down. I thought,I know who likes chainsaws and tractors and chopping trees down......Matteo and Luca so I took some pictures so I could tell you about it.
The school field looks very strange without the trees and it's very windy without them !
I feel a little bit sad. The birds and the squirrels will have find some where else to go and play. I wonder where it is.
