Kay wrote in message ...
In article , hugh
] writes
Vandals have stripped of the bark from the trunk of a local ash tree
from ground level to a height of about 5 feet.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what we might do to help it to
survive?

If it's stripped all the way round, there's nothing you can do.

Absolutely. But, the most extraordinary thing: in the children's
playground near me, some swine stripped the bark off the whole trunk
of a handsome purple sycamore-thing about twenty years old. (I could
have wept, sworn, done physical violence.) This was, I think, in May
or possibly even in April; but all the leaves are still on, and it's
seeding. There must have been enough moisture left in the branches to
keep it going all this time.

I've never seen a mature tree completely barked before, and expected a
much quicker collapse.

Mike.