ACTIVISTS VOW FIGHT AGAINST TREE MOVE REPLANTING OAK WOULD KILL IT, SAY ARBORISTS.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. - Environmental activist John Quigley John B. Quigley is a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law. In 1995 he was recipient of The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. held fast Monday to the boughs of the majestic 400-year-old oak tree he is trying to save, as the limbs swayed back and forth in a major wind storm. Environmentalists and local residents vowed not to let the 70-foot-tall tree be replanted in an oak preserve a quarter-mile away, while several arborists said Monday that such a relocation would kill the tree. ``Any attempt to move the tree will be met with resistance from residents willing to risk arrest to protect this tree,'' said Tom Bratton, a Saugus resident and one of the organizers of the protests. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials have ordered the tree removed to widen Pico Canyon Road, the main thoroughfare west of the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , to accommodate future development, including the planned fifth phase of Stevenson Ranch and the 21,600-home Newhall Ranch project. ``If you move the tree, you're not saving it - you're killing it slowly and making very expensive firewood,'' said arborist Rosi Dagit. However, tree experts hired by John Laing For John Laing, the 15th century bishop of Glasgow, see John Laing (bishop) John Laing plc is a British developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Homes, the builder of the nearby 279-home Southern Oaks development, said last week they are confident the move to the oak reserve will be successful. The roots on oaks as old as the one dubbed ``Old Glory'' by those trying to save it can go as deep as the tree's height and spread beyond the canopy of its branches, arborists say. It will cost $250,000 and take five months to move the tree. Valley Crest Tree Co., the company hired by John Laing Homes to replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. the tree, will monitor it for five years to make sure the tree survives, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. company President Bill Rattazzi. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in SAC edition only) Arborist Gary Knowlton tells the news media gathered at ``Old Glory'' that replanting the 400-year-old tree would kill it. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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