Sawing Wood

[billroper]

We woke up to a ruckus outside this morning. daisy_knotwise looked out the window and saw three Public Works trucks in the circle. It wasn't immediately clear what they were doing, but we soon found out.

Des Plaines has decided to thin out the ash tree population in the parkways to reduce the chance of losing all of the ash trees to the emerald ash borer. The two ash trees closest to us were both scheduled to be taken down. Now only stumps remain.

*sigh*

The tree was on the neighbor's side of the property line. Apparently, if he pays $50, they'll put in a new tree of a different species.

I hope he does.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I'd ask him, and offer to pay the fee, or maybe split it.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

This is what I thought of too.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

When we lived in Bartlett, I paid for the village to put an oak tree in the parkway in front of our house. Since I used some of my birthday money for it, I tended to call it "my birthday present" (but never went so far as to call it "my precious").

Alas, it was getting sick the summer we moved, so I'm not sure it is still there.

And there aren't varieties of oak that do well in Rancho Bernardo - or would fit in with our landscaping which features palm trees, a madagascar palm (which is not a true palm) and various succulents,