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The Vegetation Clearance Blog
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) in the utility right-of-way
Coast live oak fails at the bottom of the tree. Forty percent of its 619 California failure reports are root failures and 80 percent of its trunk failures involve decay. The one coast live oak the CPUC has investigated at a conductor produced two GO 95 violations, on the strength of a wound eleven inches wide at ground level.
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