Editor:
First off, you’d have thought the city would have never ever allowed Douglas firs in such a tiny park.
Re: Evergreen Loop Park razing (March 10).
The brief article failed to mention the actuator of the park’s trees sudden instability/decline and fall, the clear-cutting by a new owner in 2017 that left our park trees totally naked to the elements.
Even I, a non-logger, could see that it was just a matter of time till the park’s trees would start to fall. So I’m shocked that the city gave this guy permission to take down all his trees.
I mean, this is a logging town, right? So they should have known better.
To buy into a neighborhood (which is what you are doing when you buy a house in town – becoming a member of the neighborhood), then arrogantly proceed to radically and permanently alter the core defining character of that neighborhood in a negative way is wrong!
Yes, tree limbs do fall in gusty winds there, but nothing much at all since that 1996 rainstorm and no one has ever been hurt since we’ve been here (1992), that I know.
I’ve never seen any damage done except at 401 Nandina when one of their trees s-l-o-w-l-y leaned over to their garage.
Anyway, because of this one thoughtless family, Evergreen Loop’s once cool and unique little neighborhood and park are gone.
Who else is gone?… all the crows who use to nest in all these trees and all the other birds – blue jays, American or lesser goldfinch, house finch, northern flicker, white-crowned sparrow, black caped chickadees, Steller’s jays, dark-eyed junco, grosbeaks, American tree sparrow, varied thrush, western meadowlark, white-breasted nuthatch, bushtit, purple finch, woodpeckers. Gray squirrels … and the red-tailed hawks who’d stop by to rest. They’re all out too.
To see what it was like before the 2017/2021 clearcuts and stem weakening limbing up (turning Douglas firs into palm trees), use Google and do “streetview” (don’t forget to look up). Satellite view will give you the latest 2021 view, though half the park is still up.
How about some Pacific dogwoods and native grasses to hold the soil?
Diane Daiute
Sweet Home