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> >What kind of lichen?  Are they cutting out light/air movement or????

Enough lichens on the bark causes the bark to deteriorate and introduces 
bacterial diseases and harmful fungus.  I lost a whole grove of cherry trees 
due 
to allowing the lichens to grow too thickly on them.  Pity too, really good 
Montmorency trees that produced heavily.  

Now I make the bark a hostile environent for lichens and fungus by treating 
the bark with a weak copper solution.

James