Sounds like a case for the Seattle based organization, "Plant Amnesty", 
established to especially promote appreciation of natural tree forms.

We could have used them in Vernon, BC where friends had purchased one of two 
neighbouring city lots that were both completely filled with a dense woods 
of small and large trees.   They designed and built a house nestled between 
trees so as to not cut any of them, retaining the pretty little dense woods 
right in town.

Years went happily by and they finally noticed a For Sale sign with a Sold 
sticker on the undeveloped woodsy lot next door.   Returning home from work 
one day, they were confronted by a new scene.   The lot had been totally 
stripped and flattened.   Half of the woodsy urban paradise was gone. 
Right on the dividing lot line was a giant old maple tree several feet in 
diameter.   The tree had been bisected, cut neatly down the middle right on 
the property line with only their portion still standing.   It turned out 
that the new neighbour was from the Canadian prairies and had decided to 
retire in Vernon, BC.   He was simply turning his new property into the 
landscape he was familiar with.

A tale not unlike that of the new Groundskeeper I once hired at a historic 
site, who on his first day or work proudly cut down all the climbing Sweet 
Peas carefully planted beside the rail fence by the site's Gardener.   No 
"weeds" left in his view of landscape.


cp in bc





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From: "Leland Torrence" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Zero Emissions Book Project


John,
Three years ago, at great risk, I smuggled three black walnut trees in from 
Canada, that my Uncle had grown me from seed from his trees.  They did quite 
well, and made it through the first winter.  Then the young son of the 
farmer next door plowed them under, protective barriers and all.
Sometimes it sucks to be a nut,
Leland

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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:19 AM
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Subject: [BP] Zero Emissions Book Project

And, you don't need to buy a book to plant a tree. When I was five my
dad taught me to pick up acorns or buckeyes and put them in my pocket.
Then stick one in the ground when I come across a likely spot for a
tree--fifty five years later I'm still doing it. Have any of those trees
sprouted and grown?

I like to plant trees. I have always kept an acorn or buckeye in my
pocket every day, so when I find a likely spot I can stick it in the
earth. Last year I got back to Wabash, Nebraska, where, 47 years ago, my
dad and I stopped by to talk with Wayne Robertson about his walnut trees
down along Weeping Water Crick. I had stuck a buckeye in the ground at
the edge of the lawn in front his old farmhouse. Wayne has passed away,
but I was there with his son who had his little boy along. When I
reached around that tree my fingers did not touch on the other side. We
stood there talking about how old the tree is and how big it is. We all
bent over to pick up a buckeye and put it in our pocket. He said his dad
reminded him every summer to not mow down John’s horse chestnut tree. I
said the tree didn’t belong to me, it must belong to him since he took
care of it all those years. He looked at me, then at his own son and
said, “Looks like I’m giving this tree to you.” His boy glanced at me,
his eyes widened, bugging out. As he leaned back his gaze scanned up the
trunk high into the tree and he fell over on the grass grinning then
laughing.

John
www.HistoricHomeWorks.com

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