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Desecration

2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3736

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3736

This truck is parked less than 2 metres from the trunk of the plane tree. All of the cars drove over the mulch and within a metre or two of a tree to get to their parking spots.

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Photo by Graham Shepherd

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3737

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3737

This heavy truck is going to destroy this tree.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3739

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3739

One large plane tree. Two cars parked within a metre of its trunk.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3740

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3740

Another tree, another car.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3742

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3742

The tyre marks show that the car  drove over the mulch within half a metre of the tree trunk.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3743

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3743

Cars, tree trunk and tyre marks tell the story again.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3744

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3744

Little cars, big cars, it makes no difference.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3745

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3745

Newly laid mulch and the cars drive straight over the top.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3746

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3746

Same truck every weekend. It has killed the little tree and now the big tree is dead.

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2010-08-13 Yarra Park 3747

2010-08-13 Yarra  Park 3747

Another truck which has reversed straight over the shallow roots of the Morton Bay fig tree.

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