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In reply to the discussion: FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)7. I hae particpated in citizen protests against some of the
Government's "non native species" requests to do in dozens if not hundreds of trees. Back when eucalyptus tress were threatened in West Marin Calif.
In reading over one EIS, the paper blithely stated that the baby birds and other critters depending on the trees would simply locate to other trees. Note how these activities are done in the early part of the year, when there can be flegling owls etc.
In one case, the trees were the only trees for about six or seven miles. How is a fledling bird going to move from its nest to a tree down the road? Call up its llmo driver?
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This is insane. If fire is their worry, the 2' of woodchips will be an even worse threat.
SunSeeker
May 2013
#1
And note tht they don't mention doing this during the early part of the summer, when fledgling
truedelphi
May 2013
#8
I bet Cal wishes they had done this before Zachary Running Wolf delayed the SAHPC project
OmahaBlueDog
May 2013
#2
WTF. I am ignorant of any details but this sounds like one of the worst ideas yet.
byeya
May 2013
#3
Wow! I only saw news of this, not how bad it was. But clear-cutting, woodchips and herbicide...
freshwest
May 2013
#16
Fire prevention huh? Two feet of wood chips. Yeah. That should do the trick.
silvershadow
May 2013
#12
Yeah, mea culpa. I was just trying to be funny. (Kind of a habit). I should have tagged sarcasm.
silvershadow
May 2013
#38
I read a study that said before the redwoods were clear cut, the area was very different...
rwsanders
May 2013
#14
If you want to learn the answer to your question, then yes, you will read the EIS.
maxsolomon
May 2013
#31
Anybody that objects to this might want to watch this video from October 1991
tularetom
May 2013
#28
I've started spending Friday or Saturday mornings on San Bruno Mountain- How beautiful it is there!
NBachers
May 2013
#51
wtf? so much for those bastions of liberal thinking and FU, FEMA, terrible idea:-(
wordpix
May 2013
#36
As a native & still resdent of that area I say "THANK GOD, CAN YOU START TOMORROW?"
mulsh
May 2013
#42
We certainly have some wildly differing viewpoints in this thread. Read Carefully!
truthisfreedom
May 2013
#43