This specific tree specimen has been featured in many stories, including the oldest Robin Hood tales. It has also been the subject of many paintings, poems, and photographs over the last few centuries. The cause of death has been linked to heatwaves, droughts, and declining soil quality. The tree will not be felled.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyer9m0jmko
>>5135846>the most famous 1200-year-old treeliterally who
>>5135846Yeah I'm just going to go ahead and say that none of those things are what killed it.
>>5135911as an expert who has spent years studying the tree, what do you think killed it?
Would coppicing it have helped it live longer?
Vax status?
>>5135911>The RSPB attributed part of the blame to the scaffolding, which had artificially forced the tree to pump water towards its propped-up branches — at the expense of its trunk — rather than allowing it to shed branches naturally and begin "growing down", as would be expected for a tree of its age.
>>5135846RIP Major
>>5135914Big fan of your work
>>5135959>>5136008sometimes you're still funny, 4chan.
>>5135846RIPwhere's the sticky?
>>5135962The pics with the scaffolding screams "just let me die already".
>>5136008kek was going to post this but this pic saved as a webp and i was too lazy to convert
>>5135846Whyyyy did they keep propping up the huge useless limbs killing the treee instead of cutting them off so it could grow vertically again or whatever ????????
>>5136533Ignorance. Had they asked any gardener, they wouldn't have do it.
>>5135914The one thing that did not previously occur, muslims.
>>5135846>The cause of death has been linked to heatwaves, droughts, and declining soil qualityAs if it didn't have to deal with any of that in the last thousand years its been alive
>>5136550not to the same extent, no, especially when a large portion of its life was during the little ice ageeven still, old age is probably the biggest thing that did it in, it was basically at the end of an english oak's expected lifespan no matter what happened
>>5135846>Major Oak>Age: 1,500 Years>Girth: 35 Feet>Base: 64 FeetWhat a legend, he will be missed. Cool tree in the bg too.
>>5135950Yes but at the expense of not looking cool
>>5135846Unc has finally crashed out
