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A cut through the inner layer of bark, and passes all the way around the trunk of the tree is called girdling. This was a common method to kill trees in the early days of the US, when settlers were clearing land. The tree above the cut is now effectively dead. It may sprout from the stump, but everything above the girdling is gone.

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