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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't DPR promise that none of the mature oak trees would be cut for a swimming pool?  Yet this week, workers have cut down at least one healthy willow oak.  DC's tree canopy is shrinking.  Is this just DC government ineptitude or dissembling?[/quote]

The tree that was taken down was diseased. Please don't spread false information.[/quote]

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. 
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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. [b]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.
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Before you castigate others with your shrill know-it-all tone, do a little research. [/quote]

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