Readers who are on Facebook can navigate to its "Friends of Clark Park" page for photo evidence that the arborists were right. I snuck over the construction fence to photograph some of the felled timber. In cross section, 40% of these trunks are clearly diseased: they show internal rot ranging from incipient to massive. Either way, they had to go. The City cannot plan a 50-year infrastructure around a handful of 5-year or 10-year trees. We all must build for a deeper future in this city -- for children and grandchildren yet to come.

-- Tony West

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