From the inbox:
Landscape Services has been carefully monitoring and evaluating our trees on Appalachian’s campus for a number of years. Our main goal is public safety. The International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) has developed tree risk thresholds that we follow. A tree is only removed as a last resort when it has become a severe hazard. The wood from removed trees is reused whenever possible.
Below you will find a link to reports that discuss the trees that will be removed during the week of Spring Break, March 7-11, 2011. There are five sugar maples (Acer saccharum) in front of Chapell Wilson Hall, one sugar maple (Acer saccharum) in front of the main set of steps at Plemmons Student Union, one white pine (Pinus strobus) in front of B.B. Dougherty Administration Building, and seven locusts (Robinia pseudoacacia) along Bodenheimer Drive.
I'm glad these trees will be removed. Whenever I walk past them with the scarecrow, he'll hurl an insult and we get in an apple fight. The only good thing about it is I make a new, very sensitive, lifelong friend every time.
