We saved the trees. From now on, whenever the Park Department wants to remove a tree in any Tulsa park, they'll need approval from the Tree Advisory Committee (or the Mayor herself, in an emergency.)
In coming weeks, the Committee may ask for help in taking care of the immediate needs of Woodward Park. The trees do need trimming. As soon as we know details, we'll post them here.
In the long term, there are still questions about who will trim and who will pay for it. But we'll leave that up to the powers that be.
In the meantime, the signs and ribbons can come down. We won.
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Photos of the trees
Arborist's report
More
View the petition online and on paper in the document archive
Attend Tree Advisory Committee meetings
Let us put a sign in your yard
Send Tulsa World a letter to the editor
Tulsa Park Department is cutting corners on tree maintenance -
by cutting down the trees.
The Giving Tree
2007 Donors
- Lin and Larry Arnett
- Mark and Dixie Banner
- Jill Croka
- Julie Frank
- Diane Woodward Frost
- Stephanie Garrett
- Linda Haas
- Jane Halliwell
- Kendra Halliwell
- Nance Hawkinson
- Joseph Hull III
- David Kindred
- Sooner Lady in the Park
- Carol Lewis
- Molly Mathis
- Dr. Joe Newby
- Mary Katherine Petty
- Brett Pierce
- Sally Rippey
- Mark and Kathryn Shackelford
- Dr. and Mrs. Davis Taggart
- Robert Wandres
- Victor Wandres
2007 Documents
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2007 Campaign
The News on 6 at 9:00pm Tulsans Work To Stop The Chop
AND thanks to
- Photographer Josh Hall
- Kate Wallace for the Facebook group
- Linda Persson for all the signs along 15th Street
The Tulsa World
- Outcry spares park trees from ax
- City axes plan to cut down trees
- Forum: Park losing natural habitat
- Letter: Create tree-saving program
- Letter: Keep the legacy
- Arborist supports tree-cutting ban
- Mayoral aide says no decision yet
- Editorial: Hold that ax
- City to halt tree-cutting, for now
- Editorial: Timber
- Park neighbors tired of hearing 'timber!'
Urban Tulsa Weekly
Archive
- September 2010 (2)
- September 2009 (1)
- June 2007 (2)
- May 2007 (5)
- April 2007 (15)
7 comments:
Congratulations and thank you for your wonderful work in saving these trees! I'm sorry I didn't know about it sooner, or I would have done anything I could to help.
God bless you!!!!
Linda G.
Midtown Tulsa
i echo linda g's sentiment. perhaps this would be a good time to generate a network of email addresses in order to activate people when needed.
michael wright
university of tulsa
Why were they going to cut down trees?
Why were they going to cut down trees?
i wish i could have done something about the trees on the property where i currently live. i live in a rent house on 18th and cincinatti in historic maple ridge. part of the appeal is all of the big, beautiful tress. however, recently (say, one week ago) my landlord was persuaded to cut down SIX TREES in our yard. these trees had to have been almost 75 years old. now the house looks different, the street even look different. i know that this happened because my landlord did not want to maintain the tree limbs by order of pso. i'm tempted to move just because of this. it makes my heart sad to see such things happen purely out of laziness.
despite all of this, i'm proud of you and this cause. it's about time people started standing up for what is right. congrats!
God bless Janie and Chris for saving my beloved trees! I did what I could to help, but wish I could have done a lot more! Contact me anytime for future help in this area! Linda Persson
That is so wonerful, what you did saving those trees! Something should be done to permanately from the folishness of lots of trees being cutdown pointlessly!!!
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