Tree removal

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

The city is removing 155 trees because of ash borers. There's a public hearing about this issue on May 25 at the DPW building, 17 Franey Road, 5:30 PM.  I hope the city will replace the trees, but the person I talked to at 311 didn't know if this would occur.

Here's a list of trees slated for removal:
http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Advanced%20Site%20Listing%20Ash%20tree%20Poor.pdf

Here's information on what Cambridge is doing:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/ourservices/urbanforestry/emeraldashborer

Now that I'm looking at this list of trees, I don't think it is complete. There is a tree at 268 Willow that is marked for removal, but it is not on the list.

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Comments

[wardv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is pretty crazy. They list 21 (20, one is really on Josephine) trees on Willow alone! They must plant new trees.

Apparently the city uses 'Treekeeper 7' to keep track of trees, and we can all log in as guests: http://somervillema.daveytreekeeper.com/. It's clunky but it does map all those locations listed in the PDFs to the actual tree locations, on a map. The data doesn't seem entirely up to date.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

This is pretty interesting. According to this document, there are 115 trees on Willow Avenue. It sounds as if the city will need to remove almost 20 percent of these trees because of the ash borer.