I received a letter from Melissa Begley, urban forester, and endorsed by the city of Greensboro. In her letter, she asked for contributions to help replenish the trees in the city lost by ice, wind and development.
Ice and wind are acts of God and are natural to prune our forest so that natural growth can occur. It seems that the only other cause mentioned was development.
I remember when developers worked around trees and didn't clear-cut acres of land prior to construction. Maybe someone else should be responsible for the replacement of trees sacrificed for that purpose.
Ed Alexander
Greensboro
Comments (2)
What a shock that the city of GSO would support donated funds to replenish trees....not! Like you, I think far more have been lost due to profit seeking, lazy developers than by natural causes. The ones lost by natural means are less obvious as well. A perfect example is the site of the former Burlington Industries HQ. They could have left some of those nice old tress, but instead they bulldozed them. Nice job there.
Posted by Jay | June 13, 2005 10:40 AM
Let the damn developers pay to replace the trees.
Why should taxpayers do it?
Posted by Lilly | June 16, 2005 3:23 PM