World-famous Robin Hood oak tree has died
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And so even the last shimmer of symbolic life for the british worker movement has died /hj
Not to be confused with this Robin Hood tree.
That one is also dead
The Wikipedia article says it has sprouted from the stump.
The comments thread made me read the wiki... Man some people are just assholes
Why not irrigate it?
How did excessive foot traffic harm the soil around it? It's been fenced off for over 50 years. Did they not fence it off enough? It should not have been allowed to be affected by tourism. Drought, pollution...etc I understand but tourism?
The theory I read is the soil became more and more compacted resulting in less rainwater making it down to the roots. With climate change also reducing the average rainfall in the area, there was much less moisture available below ground.
Ah thank you. Sounds like the fenced in area should have been larger... unless you mean old foot traffic from the past(50+yrs) did the damage.