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Breaking the 4th Wall

  • As Lovely as a Tree,  Breaking the 4th Wall

    Question on trees: living or dead?

    Here is the second recent comment I wanted to respond to: Does anybody know (specifically) who’s in charge of ordering trees to be cut at Griffith Park? I’ve been a frequent runner on many of the trails in Griffith Park over the past 5 years and I’m intimately familiar with its pre and post-fire foliage. I witness the removal of many trees and shrubs that were clearly not dead after the fire. I was in the park yesterday (9.30.07) in one of the many cordoned-off areas of near the merry-go-round parking lot. To my dismay, I discovered that about 7 of the large pines, that are scorched on about 70%…

  • Breaking the 4th Wall

    Why start this?

    I don’t go to Griffith Park all that much. I don’t know why it means so much to me, but it does. I grew up in a city that respects and loves its park, and I expected to find that here, but LA ignores its park! I run there a few times a week. I’ve been a volunteer at meetings of the PROS (Parks, River, and Open Space) Committee for 3 years, because after trying to fix some of the BIG problems there by myself for a while, I was happy to know that in PROS there was a lot more manpower to help me out. When I haven’t been…