Letters.THE THINGS TREES EAT editor: I'm collecting images of trees and the things they "eat." Maybe you've noticed a tree in your area that has devoured something in its growth path. If you have, please contact me. Hugh Karraker Redding Redding, city (1990 pop. 66,462), seat of Shasta co., N central Calif., on the Sacramento River; inc. 1872. A principal tourist center for a mountain and lake region, it also has lumbering, food-processing, and diverse manufacturing. . Connecticut hkarraker@yahoo.com WHAT'S BECOME OF THE INSPIRATION OAK? editor: Some years ago I remember reading in American Forests American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens about the huge live oak in Magnolia Springs, Alabama Magnolia Springs, Alabama is an incorporated town in south Baldwin County, in the Daphne-Fairhope metro area. The town voted to incorporate in May. Elections for the first mayor and town council will be held in November. , that had been girdled by an irate i·rate adj. 1. Extremely angry; enraged. See Synonyms at angry. 2. Characterized or occasioned by anger: an irate phone call. person over property rights. I visited it during the time foresters were attempting to save it by grafting saplings over the wound. Maybe it would be nice to update readers now. Leonard Staff Jr. Tempe, AZ Editor responds: The Inspiration Oak got its name in 1990 when someone girdled the massive, 500-year-old live oak with a chain saw. The vandal cut a four-inch-deep gash all the way around the trunk--27 feet in circumference. People believed, but never proved, that the vandalism was an act of retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and against the county. Before the incident, local residents had been trying to buy the tree and the property it grew on for a county park. The perpetrator A term commonly used by law enforcement officers to designate a person who actually commits a crime. was never identified. But, as American Forests reported in its March/April 1991 issue, Stan Revis, a forester, stepped forward to try to save the tree by making grafts to cover its wound. And Stanwood Foote, a local resident, started a committee that raised about $30,000 to finally buy the tree for the county and to try to save it--setting up a pump house and a heating system to keep the injured tree watered and warm. Thousands of people visited to see the specimen. The tree died a few years after the injury, but the county left it standing. Folks like Foote still went to visit. But on January 1, the county closed the park that had featured the tree as its centerpiece. Officials worried that the dead branches--some of them 180 feet long--would drop and injure To interfere with the legally protected interest of another or to inflict harm on someone, for which an action may be brought. To damage or impair. The term injure is comprehensive and can apply to an injury to a person or property. Cross-references Tort Law. someone. A fence keeps people out, but you can still see the massive shell of the tree, and imagine its beauty, from the road. FROM OUR "A TREE FOR EVERY CHILD" PROGRAM Dear AMERICAN FORESTS: Thank you for dedicating your lives to planting trees to make the world a little greener. Trees are one of the most useful elements in nature. They give us oxygen to breathe, wood for the fireplace, wood for making houses, wood for making furniture, shade from the hot sun, fruits to eat, nuts for chipmunks and squirrels, and most commonly, paper. Without trees, Columbus would never have discovered America because he would not have had any boats to sail on. Without trees, Beethoven could not have composed a single symphony because he wouldn't have had any paper. Our sixth grade classroom at Portola Hills Portola Hills was a census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 6,391 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated into the city of Lake Forest, California as of the year 2000. History The tracts were developed in the early 1990s. Elementary is sending you $75.50. Please use it to plant more trees in the forest. Chelsea Vyhmeister and Miss Amerman's class Trabuco Canyon, California Trabuco Canyon is a small, unincorporated community in Orange County, California, with a population of only a few thousand. Each 4th of July includes an old-fashioned parade of locals riding horses and pulling home-made floats to the cheers of observers who are small in numbers but |
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