I had to laugh sarcastically this morning when I read in today's Union-Tribune about how "San Diego plans to boost the city’s urban forest with $10 million in federal climate funds that will help it plant thousands of trees in vulnerable neighborhoods and preserve many threatened trees." A good part of the article was about…
I had to laugh sarcastically this morning when I read in today's Union-Tribune about how "San Diego plans to boost the city’s urban forest with $10 million in federal climate funds that will help it plant thousands of trees in vulnerable neighborhoods and preserve many threatened trees." A good part of the article was about…
Kensington residents stand vigil protecting 100-year-old pepper trees from being removed
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Thursday Kensington neighbors clashed with city workers tasked with cutting down three old pepper trees. They seem to have a vendetta against these Pepper Trees and theyâre going to take them down come hell or high water, Neighbor Harmon Huff said.
Neighbors noticed trouble for the 110-year-old pepper trees last Friday. They stood vigil and kept the trees from being cut down.
No parking signs went up Monday for Tuesday through Friday of this week, so neighbors deliberately parked their vehicles there to protect the trees.
park and steal the bark branches and roots. they make a lot of money because outside the park the pepper bark trees have already disappeared it could. not be. this is the indigenous plant nursery in the park breeds pepper trees. meriel by lawyer and karen hunter vague have been involved in the project for several years. it s no longer possible to find seedlings growing out in nature. paper box trees don t produce fruit or seed in the wild but we managed to source some seed from an area over seven hundred kilometers away from script trees or this group recently gross the province on and they get distributed to the communities no one knows why they don t produce seeds anymore one theory is that it has to do with the climate getting hotter and drier the nursery has already bred and distributed thirteen thousand young trees in the area around the park where louise swimmer and rosie