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Friday, February 10, 2012
Tree on 16th street bites the dust
by Ben Ilfeld, published on December 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM
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A friend of mine wrote an email wondering about another tree going down in our city:
A neighbor called me to tell me that a healthy Liquid Amber on the east side of 16th street across from Fremont Park was suddenly cut down. Neighbors around there did not know it was going to be cut down because the city failed to post a removal sign!
I have also heard that UFS plans to remove ALL Liquid Ambers. Is this how they plan to do it--in secrecy?
Further, why are we spending money on removal of healthy trees when we are far behind on replanting?
There is some kind of remodeling/building going on there. Is that the reason? Please find out why this happened and is this city policy now?
If anyone has any information please post it in the conversation below. I hope that this tree was diseased or there was some kind of slip-up.
Update: This is the response from the Manager of Urban Forestry Services.
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This story was very much an open question, and the response gives one well thought out answer.