Cutting down Oaks that are over 100 years old, for a landscaping plan that the city cant afford and will take decades to complete, doesn’t sound like a brilliant idea.
The majority of the trees that are being taken down have reached a point in their life cycle [due to age or disease or a combination of both] where it is safer and smarter for us to remove them than to wait for Mother Nature to do it. Oakwood Park hasn’t been properly taken care of in a very long time. Since nobody had the foresight to turn all 3 of our big parks over to the Metroparks, I’m glad to see the city put the proper grant funds to work to make this a usable space once again. It would be nice if they could find a way to repurpose the wood when they re-build the picnic pavilions, concession stands, etc.
“The majority of the trees that are being taken down have reached a point in their life cycle [due to age or disease or a combination of both]” I don’t know about that when I was walking around the cut down trees looked healthy to me, the trucks nor the stumps looked diseased.
LORAIN 365 
WHY? It is after all Oakwood park.
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Because they are completely re-doing Oakwood Park: http://www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20160724/NEWS/160729761
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Cutting down Oaks that are over 100 years old, for a landscaping plan that the city cant afford and will take decades to complete, doesn’t sound like a brilliant idea.
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The majority of the trees that are being taken down have reached a point in their life cycle [due to age or disease or a combination of both] where it is safer and smarter for us to remove them than to wait for Mother Nature to do it. Oakwood Park hasn’t been properly taken care of in a very long time. Since nobody had the foresight to turn all 3 of our big parks over to the Metroparks, I’m glad to see the city put the proper grant funds to work to make this a usable space once again. It would be nice if they could find a way to repurpose the wood when they re-build the picnic pavilions, concession stands, etc.
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“The majority of the trees that are being taken down have reached a point in their life cycle [due to age or disease or a combination of both]” I don’t know about that when I was walking around the cut down trees looked healthy to me, the trucks nor the stumps looked diseased.
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I haven’t been over there to see for myself what’s going on. I hope you’ll be at Thursday’s meeting to ask your questions and get some answers.
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No planning, just random cutting of 100 year old trees.
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