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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%…
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After the fire: erosion and jackasses
The fire was long over, but the senseless tree-cutting continued. I was quite upset. I just couldn’t accept that the best thing for a park that had lost thousands of trees, would be to tear out 1000 more trees. Not to mention the growing erosion problem. And I felt like a wimp because I hadn’t crossed the forbidden barriers and gone into the burned areas, scout-like, on my own, to find out exactly what the Forestry Division was doing up there… photo by Martin O. Garcia, taken May 10, 2 days after the fire, on his daily hike. His own caption: “Griffith Park, AFTER.” Griffith Park Master Plan Meeting No…