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  1. spatny
    Member

    Posted on behalf of my old friend - this tree.

    A Plea on Behalf of a Tree...

    I am an old Riverside resident, having grown up and lived all my life here. I have provided shade and made oxygen and even, over the last decade, provided a comfy home for a raccoon family from time to time. Everybody seems to like me - adults, kids, birds, squirrels - nobody has a bad thing to say about me. Go ahead, ask around.

    Suddenly I was reported as “unhealthy— or unsafe by some tree trimmers, just because I lean out toward the street a bit. But I've always been like that, even when I was young, and I've never caused anyone any trouble. I understand that you have a tree pruning program, and that you come down my street - Akenside Road - about every five years, but I am positive I can continue to beautify my street and stay upright and healthy for another five years - if you will just grant me a reprieve. I have to ask you this way because I can't afford a lawyer.

    I'm very nervous now and jump every time I hear a chainsaw. Please, I'm a good neighbor - let me stay here until the next round of pruning. So many of my friends nearby, like the Butternut across the way on the triangle, and half the big elm down on Michaux, have been cut up and hauled away. iI's really dreadful to see your friends and neighbors hauled off liike that. I'm not sick, I just lean a little. I would ask my neighbors and all the nice people that live around here to sign a petition, but I have a hard time moving around. I promise you, I won't cause any trouble - PLEASE JUST LET ME STAY WHERE I AM.

    Thank you

    Your friendly old Maple Tree at 110 Akenside

    Posted Monday Mar 12, 2007 16:38 #

  2. MikeT
    Member

    Gahd! Mr ENT-MAN, you too?!

    I relate to you, DUDE! Especially the part about the lawyer and the petition...and ...

    Mr Ent, beware the Ides of March and one with an irish last name.

    "Et tu, Houlihay!

    The unkindest cut of all! "

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    I hope you abide, Dude!

    Posted Monday Mar 12, 2007 16:56 #

  3. spatny
    Member

    I hope all you Olmsteders are going to step up and help this tree get a reprieve. The Landscape Advisory Commission meets tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 7:00 in Room 3, Town Hall. That's a perfect time to stop in, say hello and ask that this tree be given a second chance. You might find the meeting interesting and even learn something. It's never too late to learn, and never too early to stop a nice old tree from being cut down before it needs to.

    Posted Monday Mar 12, 2007 22:09 #

  4. Aberdeen
    Member

    I'm no tree expert, but I walked by 110 Akenside this a.m. and didn't observe anything dangerous. Or unattractive, for that matter.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 09:29 #

  5. Catherine
    Member

    Is the tree rotting from within? Why else would it be taken down? I hope we will hear from the Department of Public Works about this tree.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 11:10 #

  6. MikeHullihan
    Member

    Pictures of the tree are posted on the Village web site under Public Works/Forestry.

    http://tinyurl.com/3ayo6c

    Tree is 80% hollow, deflecting towards the street and displaying tortion cracking.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 12:42 #

  7. Catherine
    Member

    Thank you MikeHullihan. Well I must say we had an old silver maple on our property and precisely the same thing happened. We replaced it with a sugar maple and a wild plum, but the loss of a big old tree is hard to get over, I know.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 13:22 #

  8. Elisa
    Member

    It's true that looks can be deceiving - one of our trees blew over in the storm last summer and we had no idea it was rotten inside! The racoons knew, however, and it was funny to see all of the garbage they stored in there - lots of which didn't come from our garbage cans.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 13:31 #

  9. Catherine
    Member

    By the way, new plantings of silver maples are now forbidden. They are also known as box elders. I think it is because they glom onto plumbing and sewage pipes. This fact I can vouch for.

    Yes, one day several years ago I was sitting with a friend in town on some adirondacks under a huge old tree in her yard chatting, children nearby. The very next day a wind came up, not a very strong one, there was a sound like a rifle shot, and the huge tree came crashing down where we sat, smashing the chairs, etc.

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 13:46 #

  10. Aberdeen
    Member

    Wow - Looking at the picture posted by Mr. Hullihan I now realize I wasn't looking at the relevant side of the tree. (There wasn't a rake sticking out of it when I went by, though - I would have noticed that, I hope...)

    Posted Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 14:37 #

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