Relax, kid, this micro-chip we’re implanting is just to help us identify you after you’re squashed.
The Tree Warden has spoken: two of the sixteen trees will be removed now, the remaining maples, all rotting, are estimated to have a life span of “5-10 years” and will be removed as they complete their life cycle and die. The warden punted on CL&P’s request to trim the trees back from the electrical wires, saying only that such trimming would be done “in consultation with this office”.
Hey, it’s a decision, and the warden’s the one who’s supposed to know about trees, not me, so good. Personally, I’d be nervous about my kids riding underneath these rotten trees with their weak branches but my kids aren’t in town anymore and the Nawthorne residents strongly expressed their willingness to take that risk so there you have it.
The present Tree Warden is one of best and wisest assets in the line-up of land use officials. He knows when to cut ‘em and when to let ‘em live.
Agreed, Urbane Forester. If anything, he let’s them stay up a little too long. Sounds like he came up with a good solution for this situation.
All well and good until one of those trees comes down in a storm and lands on someone’s house, car, or, God forbid, child. Then the lawyers get involved, and you know what that means.
Anon58-
It will be called an Act of God by the insurance industry. According to them, on certain days God is evidently short of little angelic creatures and needs to call some up.
In the meantime, is reasonable pruning un-lawful? Most Towns seem able to provide such service. Why not Greenwich?
Cl&P tries to prune, neighbors resist, little gets done. Then we all pay the price for our neighbor’s refusal. To quote my daughter, “whatever”.
Like the first poster, I’m going to agree and say this official knows what hes doing in terms of knowing when to chuck em and when to water em. Too many times have I seen pre-mature adult trees be brought down, despite the community even knowing better.
-Carlos Hernandez
Freaking tree huggers. They don’t like trees, they hate people.