What is it about trees in the East Bay?
I’m a pretty pro-tree guy, but the amount of energy that is put into saving small amounts of trees in one urban corner of the Bay Area sometimes baffles me. There are, of course, the treesitters squatting in Oak trees next to the UC Berkeley football stadium, whose long struggle seems to be near its end. Here in Oakland, efforts to stop the chopping down of trees as part of the redesign of the park around Lake Merritt might have lasted just as long if the city had not jumped at the first opportunity to cut down the trees. Now we have the fight to save trees along the East Ridge trail in Redwood Regional Park. I was just up there the other day and saw notices seeking support for protecting some of the trees, and Wednesday’s Oakland Tribune had a long, prominent article on the subject.
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