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I took a walk through our park this morning with my daughter. As I was walking along, I noticed that over half a dozen trees in the park have been hacked up, possibly killing them!
These trees have had a lot of time invested in them through the Greenspace program, URI, the School of Forestry, and neighborhood groups through planting them and taking care of them. They shade our park in the summer and make it a beautiful place for everyone to enjoy.
And now some two bit hack (or group of said hacks) comes along and takes a shovel to the trees?! Do they know that the life of a tree flows through the bark? What is the point of killing our beautiful trees?
Some of the trees have obviously been just planted while others have been in the park for years and are quite well established.
What can we do about this?! Please New Haven Police, patrol this park at night! I have talked to the guys that hang out in the park during the day, as well as some neighbors who I saw about and none of them seem to know who is behind this.
I love my neighborhood very much but sometimes it seems to do nothing but want to self-destruct. I just don't get it.
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Steve Brown (Registered User)
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detour01 (Registered User)
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Daniel (Registered User)
This is definitely not the work of city grounds keepers although I do know what you mean. This looks like it was done with a blunt shovel. Some of the trees look like war victims while one or two have simply been totally stripped of bark from roots to branches.
In regards to gentrification, these kids (I'm assuming it's kids) have just as much right to be here as I do, they do not however have the right to destroy property, just as I don't have that right. It's not a matter of who belongs, just a matter of stemming destructive behaviors. They are wrecking their own park as well as mine.
Jon (Guest)
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Steve Brown (Registered User)
I'll help.
Still can't believe people would destroy trees. Although given the number of people in our neighborhood who dump trash in front of their own homes I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Daniel (Registered User)
Daniel (Registered User)
Libby (Guest)
Count me in, guys! I am available most days after work except Wednesdays and some Thursdays and on the weekend.
On a somewhat selfish note, the small tree in front of my house was destroyed and removed when a large limb from another tree fell on it and my car. Can I request a new tree for this barren spot, too?
Daniel (Registered User)
How about we try for Saturday the 10th in the morning? Does that work for everyone? I can put it up on the CSNA site and make sure that others know about it too. I think that should give us enough time to get things together with the URI intern and with collecting people.
Libby, that sounds great, I think that we would just need to have that stump ground, yes? Any thoughts on how to get that accomplished?
DEZ (Guest)
Daniel (Registered User)
DEZ,
Sounds great though due to classes on Tuesday and my own greenspace group meeting on Friday I'd have to be out. It sounds like there is enough support to move ahead with this Friday or Tuesday/Friday of next week though. Let me know what you decide and I will try to drum up support for you.
Daniel (Registered User)
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Lee Cruz (Guest)
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