It's NOT A WEED, Tumwater City Council. It's a venerable oak tree.
(oh, what am I saying. Tumwater allows scotch broom and tansy ragwort to flourish, but heavens, can't have a TREE in the way, can we?)
This was to me, just a case of not if, but when. Tumwater's City Council does NOT like trees. They get in the way, you know? THey're just so messy. So of course they demonize the tree and oh, let's not forget the basis for all this: Mr. Insurance Man.
Brace it, cut out the infected parts but DO NOT CUT IT DOWN.
Saying it's going to cost money to keep pruning is mere gaslighting. How much money has Tumwater spent putting in dozens of roundabouts? The roundabout at Trosper and Capitol has been ongoing for a year, if not more, businesses on the sides of the construction are going out of business, and if you thought congestion was bad before the construction started, wait until the first collision at the roundabout when a semi tries to negotiate it.
IN the meantime they cut down all the trees there to make way for...construction equipment. Tearing down the Meeker Oak is just more of the same.
Oh, and by the way, you're not supposed to cut down oaks. Too many have been lost, this lovely old one has the genetics to withstand all the pollution, the noise, the compression of the soil. Iwould think it's more valuable than anyone on the City Council can understand.
LEAVE It BE.
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