Comments on: Crime and (we hope) punishment

By: Sarah G

Sarah G — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:47:27 +0000

The City Aborist came to the Civic league meeting a few months ago and told us alot about the trees in our neighbourhood and the park. He did say that citizens have to be their eyes. They can’t keep up with everything without people’s help. You can report a damaged or dying tree to the city’s 311 telephone line. We’ve reported ones outside our house damaged by large trucks and they came quickly and removed the hanging limb and other damaged parts.

By: Tim V.

Tim V. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:05:03 +0000

Not sure, but the city’s arborist is going to have his hands full in our neighborhood later this summer as the dry weather sets in. The city has marked what looks like a beech tree for removal on our block (it could be a hackberry, I’m not great at telling the difference). The elms on our block that I posted about earlier this year hung on during the wet spring but are starting to droop and dry up, and there’s a big one on the edge of the park at Lakeview that’s all but dead.

By: Thad Williamson

Thad Williamson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:42:10 +0000

Not sure what category this fits into, but just now (8:30 pm Wednesday) a very substantial branch of a tree suddenly collapsed and fell into the road up near the lake. Very lucky that no one was hurt. There were some people nearby who perhaps had something to do with it. I did not see what happened and could not stick around but a police officer was checking the scene out when I left. Do the trees around the park need to be trimmed more often? This was a scary situation.