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Topping trees is bad for tree health!!
Topping trees lead to the decline of the trees health and eventually it can die. Topping is the indiscriminate cutting of tree branches to stubs or lateral branches that are not large enough to assume the terminal role. Other names for topping include “heading,” “tipping,” “hat-racking,” and “rounding over.”
It is a common fallacy that trees in Hawaii can survive the worst butchering that you can give them and they will always return. People assume that if the tree comes back to life and it is green that it is a healthy tree.
The truth is that a tree can appear to look healthy to the untrained eye and it can really be in a state of decline. It is just like a person that can have a disease and appear normal and healthy. These pictures are further proof that topping trees leads to their demise. These were once beautiful and healthy trees that should have been properly trimmed by a Certified Arborist.
For more info click here: http://www.treesaregood.org/treecare/topping.aspx 
