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March 05 2021
Margo Craig is a St. Johns-area resident and a tree lover. She writes that we should better use our tree resources.
The latest winter storm claimed at least one of Portland s oldest residents, an Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana), Heritage Tree No. 200. The departed was about 250 years old, one of several old oaks that tower over Willamette Cove from the bluff of North Portland.
The elder oak was a vestige of Oregon s oaky past, when Indigenous burning practices maintained great swaths of oak woodlands and savannah. It was for good reason: oak trees are more resilient to fire than conifers. Scientists call White Oak habitat magnets, that support birds and plants. Indigenous people took advantage of this, as well as the elk and deer that oak attracted. Oak trees will provide essential housing for the animal kingdom s inevitable climate refugees.
The partners are seeking to develop up to 21,850 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space across from the municipal town complex currently under construction.
Everything was there and then it wasn t : Developers allowed to skirt tree ordinance
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Trees were bulldozed to make way for new housing next to Government Canyon State Natural Area, in the background.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
In 2019, a city environmental plans examiner emailed then-state Rep. Roland Gutierrez to inform him he had violated San Antonio’s tree preservation ordinance by chopping down a large heritage oak without a permit on a lot he was developing.
“There will be a work without permit penalty of $2,000 assessed to your project,” Robin Loyd wrote to Gutierrez, D-San Antonio.
The fine didn’t stick.
LVVR Sparkling Cellars
Winemaker Eric Donaldson owns the only winery in Lodi that employs the painstaking, laborious process called methode champenoise (or traditional method used to make champagne). In this process, the second fermentation takes place in the bottle, leading to elegant expressions noted for long-lasting, fine bubbles.
Note: Several Lodi wineries take their still wine to outside wineries that also employ methode champenoise.
Donaldson sources some of Lodi’s best growers for his label, and several clients have commissioned the Ohio native with MacGyver-like resourcefulness and ingenuity to make their bubbly.
The
2017 LVVR Cellars Alan Ranch Pinot Noir Reserve ($49) was bottled after primary fermentation and aged 20 months on its spent yeast cells in tirage and finished with no additions of wine or residual sugar. The pinot s floral notes stand out on the nose.