By an edhat reader:
How come the City of Santa Barbara Parks Department is cutting down a dozen or so perfectly good and healthy trees for construction at the Milpas Shopping Center on December the 12th?
Trees Cut Down For Construction?
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December 10, 2018, 8:22 am
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I’m sure you realize. It’s beacuse of the construction. There was a least one tree where your house is that was cut down. And then another was used to build your house. What is the Milpas shopping center anyways. The abondaned on or the TJ parking lot
If you look at the oldest maps of Sb you will see that there were almost no trees, we’ve planted the majority. To think there was once a tree where every house is standing is crazy. My house was build decades before me. It was open space no trees…there are pictures and drawings to prove it.
City has a very aggressive Tree Czar (City Arborist) who issues either permits or substantial fines for any work done on trees in a wide swath on both public and private property. Check with his department to learn more about the state of tree protection in this town.
They’re probably those great Eucalyptus trees: non-native, aggressive growing and fragile ( drop big branches in wind storms which can crush people & cars ).. Time to plant something more sensible?
eucalyptus are also highly flammable and can send debris for a mile with wind. Shame the monarch butterflies didn’t choose something else and makes me wonder: Since eucalyptus is a non-native species are monarch butterflies non-native, too, or did they previously eat something else? If so, maybe they could de-volve and eat whatever it was again if it still exists.