Boseong Bonsai Street Development, Riverside Tree Maintenance Underway

Creating a Healthy Tree Growth Environment for Typhoon Preparedness in Summer

Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it is vigorously carrying out pruning work on trees planted along 12 km of riversides, including Bonghwacheon in Boseong-eup, Songgokcheon and Joyangcheon in Deukryang-myeon, to create a millennium bonsai street.

This maintenance aims to prevent disasters such as tree breakage and lodging damage caused by summer typhoons, embankment leakage due to tree death along the riverside, and embankment collapse in advance.

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Boseong-gun is lowering the height of trees within a range that does not affect their growth and cultivating them into beautiful bonsai-shaped trees by promoting root and trunk growth.

By June of this year, a total of 1,522 trees, including zelkova and hackberry trees identified through complaints and on-site investigations, are planned to be maintained.

In particular, priority is given to maintaining tilted trees and hazardous trees at risk of falling, and branches of water sprouts that obstruct visibility and scenery are pruned using powered chainsaws, receiving positive responses from local residents and farmland cultivators.

A county official said, “We will continue to strive for systematic tree management with the goal of preparing for disasters and creating a millennium bonsai street.”

Boseong = Park Cheon-seok, Honam Reporting Headquarters, Asia Economy hss79@asiae.co.kr