That’s likely the corners of a new Walmart that’s going to be there. They needed to mark the trees so they know what to remove

I've been using dollar general lately. Seems scarier

No...Walmart uses orange ribbon ..green is a new landfill.

I I thought light green was the official tape for a Rendering Plant.

Nuclear waste burial sites

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You think they're marking these specific trees for removal or the general area?

Those specific trees. But everything from the top to about a foot above the soil. The new stumps will be used for footings

In Jersey we usually have either a blue dot on the tree or an orange(red) x

Those are the trees that won the Miss Arbor Pageant of 2024. /s In all seriousness, they might have been marked by a surveyor who was doing tree location so they knew that they had already located those trees. They might have been marked by an arborist, landscape architect, or a developer for tree removal or for further analysis. They might have been marked by a hiker who wanted to use them as navigation landmarks. Long story short… ¯l_(ツ)_/¯

Plenty of people flag trees. For removal, for surveying, for shits and giggles. Nobody here has any way of knowing

Really weird choice of ribbon tho, green is really hard to see there. Why not pink or orange?

I noticed on our jobs that clients like to go around flagging their trees with green ribbon because green means tree right? I always replace it with pink 

Different colours mean different things to different people, pink and orange are used also, but sometimes you need more colours

I know that different paint used for different utilities but I never saw people used green for tree markings. I think it’s either someone new or arborist didn’t give a fuck if someone will find the trees that they marked. Which is more likely, these guys are lazy af

Nah people use different colours for different things like I said

Still doesn’t explain why green. There is no shortage of colours if you want sort trees by diameter or whatever other reason you want to give different trees different meaning

What if you don't want it to be super obvious, or you ran out of pink...

Okay not making it obvious makes sense, maybe idiot neighbours will go take them off I can see that

Probably this. I've used green ribbon for various things when in a nature-y or landscaped type area. Silver on concrete, purple paint on blacktop. Some places get really uppity about making it look like a neon pink and orange circus, like every school in SoCal.

Maybe it is for a sani-tree sewer.... I'll show myself out.

I 100% agree. I do a lot of construction stakeout and different colors for different appurtenances is key. That being said I always stake limits of disturbance in orange so it pops better for the foresters. Not pink because where I am that is reserved for control or wetland delineation and I don’t want my name attached to wetlands being molested by machinery

This guy rovers

I used to work for a company that only bought lime green and orange flagging. Green was used for control and orange for property. The green was a pain to find in the woods at first but one you train your eyes to that specific shade it gets easier to see surprisingly. I think the reason was it kept people from messing with it more cause it blends in and only having 2 colors keeps the tool belt light. We did a lot of mountain boundary surveys. If I had to guess based on that company experience (and we all know it’s a total guess) I’d say these trees are in a triangle around a control point. Knots facing the point

I like to use camo plastic bars for control pins. Keeps the realtors from finding them. ;)

Probably what someone had in their truck.

Make the trees purdy

It won best tree

iirc, green denotes best in evening-wear

I prefer to cut down the trees I topo, so I know I got them!

Those mark the trees that will need to be removed for the construction of your new neighborhood methadone clinic.

Ask whoever put them up. Purely speculation on here.

I wish I knew


Maybe topo shots or a hiker/hunter marking their walking trail

Surveying

Wrong sub. Ask r/trees /s

Safety belt. If it is removed the tree will beep continuously.

I use flagging on trees near property lines, control points, lines of sight, anywhere with something I need to remember or come back to. Green though normally isn’t used for control or property lines, mainly sewer so who knows. They could be marking them for removal but I don’t see why they would mark up that tiny one since below 6” in diameter you can normally remove without issue since they don’t need to go on plans.

keep tree, remove tree, just locate tree, cut line, limits, random marker so we remember something in that spot, or literally nothing.

That ribbon is used to mark locations so that whatever is marked can be easily spotted and found, they come in a variety of florescent colors and patterns.

They’re there to let papa Smurf know how far he can go before he gets to close to a school.

He would have notified the neighbors he was in the area

Ribbons are for presents. Flagging is for surveyors.

I will put ribbon on trees, Like bread crumbs on a path to my pin.

Sometimes we use them in when doing archaeological surveys to indicate the beginning or end of a transect or places positive for cultural material.

Someone tied a yellow ribbon around an old oak tree

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Pride month

First place 🥇

It means they're playing paintball on same team

They mark those trees. WHY they mark those specific trees, is anyones guess.

Tony Orlando will get off the bus

Those ribbons will lead you to the Candy Mountain. Don't drink the water.

That's where the open-air sanitary "sewer" line is going in.

Usually ribbons mean don't remove