The hysteria here in the Marquette neighborhood continues unabated. Last month I noted the agitation drummed up in my neighborhood over the use of herbicides. And now the new drama involves trees.
One denizen of the neighborhood documented damage to trees on the blocks undergoing construction and posted his musings to the Marquette Yahoo group. This prompted the hysterical reaction of one person who wrote:
This company should be banned from further city work and the current contract with them broken NOW. They have certainly broken it themselves through this wanton, uncaring, unprofessional damage.
AND MAYOR DAVE--
where are you??
why aren't you standing up for city trees?
Yeah, Mayor Dave. Why are you not spending most of your time deep in the bowels of City Hall in the Arboreal War Room monitoring the health of all city trees on the Big Board? Ignore all the jobless here in Madison, ignore the problems on the southwest side - the trees outside of the homes of the well-heeled should be your first priority!
2 comments:
Can't be as bad as the 14 acres of mature hardwoods the city clear cut two years ago in Owen CONSERVATION Park. The area was cleared to build retention ponds so run off to Lake Mendota would be minimized. I'm confused why destroying 14 acres of woodland was less environmently damaging than run off from a natural watershed into an existing retention water feature.
The hydrological sciences aren't my strong suit so I really don't know if a containment pond was less environmentally damaging or not.
Controlled burns are counterintuitive as well...
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