UL cuts down nice oak for art

"Now, the Speed is going to give a cross-section of the Valley oak to Parker and his students, so they can examine it under a microscope and learn from it."

Gee... Now that all it's worth is a pile of firewood.
 
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Turns out it was a 60 year old red oak. It was still nice, and the front of the museum looks barren without those trees.

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That's what I was thinking, 60 and red. I remember it as a nice tree. Did you ever assess it? It's amazing to me that there is so much confusion about it.

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I've got logging trucks rolling past my front window every five minutes. Too bad about that tree. It must of been cute as a baby seal.

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It was a nice tree. We don't need trees like it removed in this urban heat island.
 
Your right, all trees are important. Losing a nice one in a prominent location is a blow to the quality of life for a community. Logging isn't even that bad, some wildlife benifit from the regrowth and the forest will come back over time. It's the permenent loss that concerns me. Roads and power lines for tourism and mining and the need for bigger and bigger houses. All new subdivisions around here are a minimum 2 acre lots so they can have septic feilds. We're spreading far and wide, so is our f'n toxic effluent. I forsee the desert states running out of water and the millions of american refugees heading north to hammer the last frontier. That's abit of a heads up. First the southern agriculture will fail and we will grow more speciality crops up here in an attempt to feed the 7 billion.
 
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Your right, all trees are important. Losing a nice one in a prominent location is a blow to the quality of life for a community. Logging isn't even that bad, some wildlife benifit from the regrowth and the forest will come back over time. It's the permenent loss that concerns me. Roads for tourism and mining and the need for bigger and bigger houses. All new subdivisions around here are a minimum 2 acres lots so they can have septic feilds. We're spreading far and wide.

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Right on! My own brother is building a new house. Contract signed. The property was a pasture or hay field before. Thanks to urban sprawl it is now prime real estate. There are plenty of good old houses in town he could have bought! I guess I didn't try hard enough to convince him. Really, I would have had to convince his wife. Near impossible.

Anyway, it just seems to me UL would have known better. They have some great old trees on campus and some nice new ones. And prior to this, they have done very well preserving their canopy. Here in Louisville that 40-70 year old range is what is missing the most, IMO. There are old trees and young ones. Not as many mid range. If you look at the parkways you'll see it.
 
Check my edit I added while you were posting. I hope I'm wrong and we can continue enjoying the lonely roads and drinkable water. You can still dip your cup and drink the water north of here but I can see that disappearing in my lifetime. Houston, we have a problem.
 
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