It's practically murder

**jennielynn1970** · 07-21-2008, 03:12 PM

They're doing that more and more up here too. One of the saving graces that the inner city has had has been the large shade trees on the blocks. It makes it look less "city", you know??

Now they're cutting them all down. Leaving stumps(yeah, they don't remove the whole thing, they leave that for the owner of house the tree is in front of).

**Medusa** · 07-21-2008, 05:19 PM

My neighbor did that when he bought the house next door. Apparently, he has said that his father made him do a lot of yard work when he was growing up because now he wants his place to be as low maintenance as possible. My old neighbors had planted beautiful flowering shrubbery and flowers and, when the new neighbor bought the house and moved in, he tore every one of them out. Then he started on the trees; he removed several pine trees that were several stories high. All he has is mulch now; no color, hardly any trees. Even the beautiful hand built gazebo that was there is now in the junkyard. It's a shame but some people just don't appreciate nature or God's handiwork.

**jesse_3** · 07-22-2008, 01:22 AM

They are doing that in our town too! They are making more room to build more houses, and there were acres and acres of land full of trees and grasses.

**columbine** · 07-22-2008, 08:34 AM

The University of Illinois is doing some interesting research on the relationship of tree cover to human health: http://www.lhhl.uiuc.edu/

Love, Columbine

**Pawsitive Thinking** · 07-23-2008, 06:53 AM

People on my favourite dog walk have chopped down lots of beautiful trees so they could build a "poncey" rockery instead. No offense to anyone with rockeries but the trees were lovely