Hearst Playground story in Current
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Anonymous
DC’s tree canopy declined 2 percent in the last 4 years. Less than some other US cities, but not enviable either. Saving the legacy oaks at Hearst Park needs to be DPR’s top priority at that location. |
Anonymous
| I live in the immediate vicinity, and we were notified last week that a heritage tree needed to be removed due to disease, noted by three separate arborists. |
Anonymous
Chen is a crook and should be in prison. |
Anonymous
*CHEH, CHEH, CHEH |
Anonymous
| Why are some people so against a pool? |
Anonymous
You remain wrong. See, for example: https://caseytrees.org/tree-species/dc-tree-canopy/. A quote: "Since the inception of Casey Trees in 2002, D.C.’s tree canopy has been steadily increasing." As for your made-up statistic, how about "The District’s current canopy coverage is 38 percent resulting in an A grade. This reflects a two percent increase from 2015." (https://caseytreesdc.github.io/treereportcard2018/?_ga=2.146599793.456375350.1563992670-941858029.1563992670) I'm confident you shrivel at the thought of POTUS making up stuff (and rightly so!), yet here you do it just the same. Spare me. |
Anonymous
The tree that was taken down was diseased. Please don't spread false information. |
Anonymous
| A pool would have been nice during the recent heat wave. |
Anonymous
I pointed out several times earlier in this thread that one of the mature oak trees was dying and was going to have to come out. Trees, like everything else, get sick and die. |
Anonymous
| Interesting to note that this thread has outlasted the Current, from which the basis of this thread was formed. |
Anonymous
But that's what obstructionists do. I'll bet $100 the poster hates Trump (again, for good reason). And, yet, here we see him/her making up authoritative sounding statistics like the tree canopy decreasing by 2% in the last four years and complaining about a tree being cut down as part of a grand conspiracy on pool pushers. |
Anonymous
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Im a neighbor in the immediate vicinity. I'd prefer they don'tI build a pool but not sure it's that big a deal based on the current plan. I don't support taking down a single additional tree for the pool. If the tree was diseased, the tree was diseased. But don't cut it down for the pool.
It makes me crazy that some people think its a good idea to destroy an urban green space by pouring cement on it. I don't want a pool for two reasons. First, it will be an eyesore for nine months a year. Second. DC is flush now, but we all know what that building and facility will look like in five or ten years. |
Anonymous
Why call out someone as an obstructionist? You are betting they hate Trump while making up "authoritative sounding statistics" Well, there is a lot of room to disagree on DC's tree canopy. You should do your homework before shouting fake news on this board. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-says-its-tree-canopy-is-growing-federal-researchers-disagree/2018/06/10/5a0b5048-6035-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?utm_term=.f4129cfd670d D.C. says its tree canopy is growing. Federal researchers disagree. 'The massive long-term effort aims to reverse decades of decline in the city’s urban forest. The District reports success: Its analysis of 2016 data found that 38.7 percent of the city’s land area was forested, up from 35.1 percent in 2006." But a study published in April by two U.S. Forest Service scientists calls those findings into question. The city lost 850 acres of tree cover — roughly 2 percent of its total surface area — between 2010 and 2015, the researchers reported. That study, which compared the District with states, found that in terms of percentage, the city’s loss of urban forest was among the highest of any jurisdiction over the five-year period. Before you castigate others with your shrill know-it-all tone, do a little research. |
Anonymous
They need to take down a number of trees for the pool. Construction will necessarily destabilize some, especially on the slopes. And who wants a pool that is perpetually in shade?! |
Anonymous
I think that you have your potential political alignments off. It's Trump who doesn't give a damn about trees or land conservation. In DC, it's the so-called "smart growth" development lobby that has de-prioritized green space protection. Indeed, one of the smart growth lobby's social media consultants is a partner in the firm that advised Trump on media and polling in 2016. |