Tue, Feb 09 2010
|
|
Published June 14, 2009 08:29 pm - What is a stand of trees worth? To Empire and its tree hackers it’s just a matter of a few minutes of work using the workers’ mutilating equipment. To my neighbors and me they represent tranquility, home for birds, rabbits and squirrels. All in the name of safety, for a streetlight that is literally on the end of the line. Voices: Mutilated trees What is a stand of trees worth? To Empire and its tree hackers it’s just a matter of a few minutes of work using the workers’ mutilating equipment. To my neighbors and me they represent tranquility, home for birds, rabbits and squirrels. All in the name of safety, for a streetlight that is literally on the end of the line.
I’ve been informed that I must pay to have the light moved to save my trees. How many trees have we lost in our “Tree City USA”? Drive around town; look up at the rows and rows of power lines attached to unsightly poles with stumps and mutilated trees. What if we were a progressive city, a green city with a tree ordinance? Cities like that do exist, cities that have ordinances requiring citizens to get a permit to trim a tree. What if money was spent on digging trenches and burying the lines? There would be no more power failures during ice storms or summer windstorms. How much would we save? We would save our trees and the crew from Iowa with its tree-hacking trucks that park on 32nd Street could go back home. Or, better yet, they could move on to some other town and mutilate those residents’ trees. Sheila Gilstrap Joplin 
•
Click to discuss this story with other readers on our forums.
More from the Editorial section
In our view: We are all heartsick |
Print this story
E-mail this story
Post to del.icio.us
Discuss this story
Watch the day's top political stories unfold
 |
 |
: Special Offer For New Subscribers
:
 |
||||||||
|
||||||||
 |
|
|
Published by Newspaper Holding, Inc. 117 East Fourth Street, Joplin, MO 64801 Using our site is your agreement to the terms and conditions. News: news@joplinglobe.com • (417)623-3480 Advertise with the Joplin Globe Copyright © 2006 The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO All rights reserved. 
|
Popular Business directory links - Joplin Apartments | Joplin Attorneys | Joplin Auto Dealers | Joplin Auto Parts | Joplin Auto Repair | Joplin Beauty Salons | Joplin Car Rental | Joplin Dentists | Joplin Doctors | Joplin Flowers | Joplin Hotels | Joplin Insurance | Joplin Loans | Joplin Mortgages | Joplin Movers | Joplin Pizza | Joplin Realtors | Joplin Restaurants | Joplin Storage | Joplin Tax Preparation | Joplin Travel | Joplin Featured | More...
|
|
Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. • CNHI Classified Advertising Network • CNHI News Service |
