First of the UL Old Oaks, Felled

[Turbine]

The story in The Independent also said the University plans to plant an equal amount of board-feet in other areas of campus to replace the trees being removed. _

LOL

Do they have any idea how many trees they would have to plant to match the board-feet lost with the removal of the trees?

[Turbine]

_ Those are nice trees, but I'm not so sure that they are "Stephan's Oaks" planted in1900.........Who can verify this?? Turb?? _

You are correct the oaks near Denbo and Bancroft are not the Century Oaks.

In fact only 12 or so along Johnston and University are already at 100+ years.

It won't be till 2020+ that the trees in question will become Century Oaks. LINK

[CajunRed]

So part of this story and thread was based on facts about trees that aren't facts?

igeaux.mobi

[CajunT]

_ So part of this story and thread was based on facts about trees that aren't facts?

igeaux.mobi _

Imagine that, actual facts and not emotion.

[HelmutVII]

It's not like they didn't know that the tress were there from the very beginning or maybe not. It would not require a redesign to save them now if they would have designed around them in the first place. It appears that the new dorms and the parking garage are a canned design (by a development company) and to do a redesign of a canned design would take time and money which they didn't want to spend.

I'm thinking this is the case because they are just now doing the topographic survey, which is AFTER, the design is completed. Typically the survey is the first thing to be done after a site is selected, then site planning follows. At least that's the way I've always done it for the past 30 years. I also suspect that the guys doing the actual day to day grunt work designing haven't set foot on campus. The principal of the firm visited but he's probably a bean counter and hasn't designed anything in years. I deal with out of town people like this all the time.

[CajunRed]

So...what's the discussion now? Are they the right trees or not?

igeaux.mobi

[Turbine]

So part of this story and thread was based on facts about trees that aren't facts?

igeaux.mobi

Really huh?

They claim they are going to replace the board feet.

igeaux.mobi

[HelmutVII]

_ So...what's the discussion now? Are they the right trees or not?

igeaux.mobi _

It is my understanding that the Century Oaks are on that part of the Campus bounded by McKinley, University, Johnston and St. Mary. Those trees are on a consistent spacing of 18 (of my) steps. These were the original Oak trees planted by Dr. Stephens. In that area are several older tress - three are around the Martin Hall circle and one is behind Burke Hawthorne hall near the student union.

I think the oaks in question are on that part of the campus that is bounded by Taft, St. Mary, McKinley and Tulane. This is the block with Hamilton Hall. These trees are not as old and are spaced twice the distance apart as the other trees. At one time there was one Sycamore tree between each oak tree along McKinley. There were a few more Sycamore trees on that block. Only one remains along Taft to the rear of Denbo Hall. It is in pretty bad shape as it is more than 60 years old.

When I went to Hamilton Laboratory School we used to use the Sycamore seed pods as make believe hand grenades. We got into trouble more than once doing that. We also found out that, when the seed pods were just the right age, you could throw them on the sidewalk and they would blow up into millions of little white hair balls. It was great fun (back then it was for us, today probably not). The hair balls would be light enough for the wind to carry the seeds away from the mother plant.

[BeauCajun]

_ Really huh?

They claim they are going to replace the board feet.

igeaux.mobi _

According to KATC none are the Century Oaks and the 6 will be replaced by 30.

[CajunT]

_ According to KATC none are the Century Oaks and the 6 will be replaced by 30. _

Make sure the local chapter of ELF gets that memo, it seems they have found a board to dump their propaganda on.