Trees Lost to the Foolishness of CAHH & the County:

Here are the real tallies (maybe off by one or two, and keep in mind, only trees 8" diameter and greater were counted.  There were hundreds of trees smaller than 8" that were lost):

 

 - Trees that the county admitted that they were going to remove prior to or during construction = 60 to 70.  All other trees besides those were deemed "saved".

 

 - in addition to those 60 to 70 that they admitted they were going to kill, the number of "saved" trees killed during construction or because of construction prior to the recent arborist review - 36

 

 - trees that died after that, in the last year - 27 (not 11)

 

That's 63 large trees lost to construction impacts.  All 63 were deemed "saved" trees.  None of them actually passed the county standard for a "saved" tree.  None of them passed Keith Pitchford's tree survival analysis.  They were all expected to die.  And more are expected to die.  I still have not gotten an answer on why they were allowed to be considered "saved" trees?

 

Many of the trees were over 30" in diameter.  Some over 40 ". That puts them over 100 years old.  Some over 150.  Some over 200.

 

And there are going to be more that die in the next year.