Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Meetings as Theatre on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Thursday night was okay. Lost was great, but that wasn’t what I meant.
There was the Neighborhood Griffith Park Council Utility Annual Budget Parks and Recreation committee Dinner at Traveltown, which is where all the old trains hang out in the park. The herd of us were rounded up by Councilman Tom LaBonge. I wasn’t […]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Important Stuff on Dec 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I thought I should add to my post below that the LA Department of Water and Power has more of a true safety issue than Street Services: they have to trim trees that come too close to high-power wires. The story they have repeated to me several times is that once a palm frond touched […]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
You will recall, faithful readers, that at my last nh meeting, I heard a very disturbing rumor: that 900 additional trees had been removed after the fire. These were not burned trees. They were just chopped down.
Now Vicky Israel, Griffith Park Manager at the time, had said that the plan was to fell about 160 […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
