Dead willows have been felled

Before 

 Thanks to a grant from Hamilton City Council (part of the $100,000 allocated for gully restoration in the last annual plan) we had two arborists from Green Footprint, working for six days felling many willows that we had poisoned in past years. The willows were becoming a problem as they were starting to fall. Uncontrolled falling was causing damage to the understory and there was a safety issue of the willows falling across public paths. Fallen willows also made access to do maintenance on the ground a problem. The heads of the trees worked a bit like a net making access difficult.