The Trees on Olive Ave
Submitted by bryanzera on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:41.
In a comment posted earlier, someone mentioned that the trees on Olive Avenue were being cut down. A walk thru the Tower last night confirmed it: Healthy-looking trunks jut out from their openings in the concrete. When I got home, I shot an email to Cynthia Sterling regarding the loss of the trees. My belief in our local government's response ran low. I didn't anticipate hearing back from her outside of an automated response saying that "[SUBJECT OF MY EMAIL] is very important to her".
A few minutes ago, I recieved an email from Councilmember Sterling's office explaining that the trees were diseased and had to be removed. The city plans to replace the trees as well as improve landscaping. My faith in my Councilmember and local government in general: restored.
I just hope that the removal of the trees isn't some insidious plan to take our property away from us.
No sense of humor
Out of the Void obviously doesn't have a sense of humor nor has dealt with the morons who run the City of Fresno!!
AHAH Mystery SOLVED
...though I find it a bit, erm, paranoid and 'vandals attack,' (even slightly conspiracy theory oriented,
(the other string that started talking about the trees getting cut down?)
'...we have new evidence that there were trees on the grassy knoll, and we think it was a deranged dutch elm, that actually took out JFK... -that or Rocky J. Flying Squirrell, on a bad acid trip...'
(DON't get me started on the sewer line postings godda-mia...)
In fact, if said trees were blighted or had a disease, they would have to be cut down, and quickly, -it's radical removal of the sick trees 'before,' any other trees could be affected.
-Back east? in my folks' neighborhood, ALL of the Japanese Maples were taken out by a single virus, and an area about a quarter mile square dropped them all in one season, (they were often a few hundred feet apart in comepletely different yards too, it's weird how a disease will affect one species of tree and not another, and it is quite dramatic.)
They were beautiful trees, some of them being upwards of 60 years old.
I'm glad the towns arborists are on top of things.
...I was sort of wondering how anybody could chainsaw anything at 06:00 and the police not be called, especially in the Tower...
Thanks for the update.
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