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Girdling meaning
present participle and gerund of girdle
Example sentences (4)
Photo courtesy Vermont Invasives website Right, an example of girdling a buckthorn.
Girdling is where the tree is cut through the sapwood of a tree, but not completely through, to sever the connective tissue and sap flow.
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There was a period in the mid 1960s when U.S. Forest Service policy in California's National Forests was systematic extermination of California black oak by girdling the trees.