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The voicemail went something like this:
“Dude, a big tree just went boom at the end of your street.”
The tree is located at Division and J Street next to the First Congregational Church. So… Division Street has been closed between I and J Street since 5:00. The last time we checked, it looked nearly clear. Big tree go boom.
Link | Posted on 10. May 2008, 19:23
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We’ve had a few large old trees on our street fall down go boom too. Considering they were probably planted 100 years ago, it might be time for the city (or residents) to plant some new ones.
1 | Posted by morgan | May 10, 11:24 PM
Multicare probably wishes it would have aimed at First Congregational.
2 | Posted by Phil | May 11, 07:44 AM
Morgan’s right. We’ve lost a few big beautiful trees in the last few years from storms, disease, or just their old age.
NYC is trying to plant 1 million trees in the next decade … maybe Tacoma should start looking at a way to make sure we are replacing trees that we lose (or increase the number of trees we have).
It’s more than just beautification, it’s about cleaner air, more temperate streets in the summer, and better property values.
3 | Posted by Erik Hanberg | May 11, 03:48 PM
“The tree is located at Division and J Street next to the First Congregational Church…”
And the hand of Historic Salvation strucketh.
4 | Posted by broadweezy | May 11, 11:07 PM
It took out the light pole next to it. Cracked the concrete right in half.
5 | Posted by jennifer | May 12, 08:13 AM
Well, Morgan, the City does have a free street tree program. Granted, they aren’t very good about advertising it (yet), it does exist. Bummer there isn’t some cool goal (that I know of) of planting 1 million trees in the next decade or something like that, but citizen demand for a more comprehensive Urban Forestry division might be a good place to start! Tacoma is over three times the size of Olympia, and until last year, Olympia had 2 full time and one part time Urban Foresters-where are we? One part-time…Start writing your council members asking for a better and more comprehensive Urban Forestry program!
6 | Posted by 1420 | May 12, 04:20 PM
Here are these people going on again about how great Olympia is. They’ve got these fancy urban foresters and they’ve got two co-op food stores (ready to open another one downtown). They’ve got a tavern where you can do your laundry and a grocery store downtown on the waterfront. You people love Olympia so much maybe you should marry Her.
7 | Posted by crenshaw sepulveda | May 12, 08:44 PM
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