[Goose]

OK, back to the trees! Although many of you may know this already, I thought I would summarize what actually was done regarding the tree removal. Despite Stanford's attempts to characterize the tree removal as difficult, it was accomplished fairly rapidly. The reported initial plan was to spend about 5 days removing 4 trees. As I pointed out at the time, that would leave quite a few arguably dangerous large eucalyptus on the Santa Clara side of the creek. Stanford decided to "do the right thing" (more or less) and actually spent three weeks (blocking the right lane on Alpine Road) and removed a reported total of 10 trees. They hauled away most but not all of the trunks.

The grove of eucalyptus is greatly reduced, but strangely enough not eliminated. There are still some fairly large trees on the Santa Clara side of the creek. The only trees removed on the San Mateo side of the creek, as near as I can determine, were trees that were "in the way" of clearing the other side of the creek. Several very large eucalyptus that are very close to Alpine Road remain. The rationale may be that while they are close to Alpine they are (relatively) far from the creek and are therefore unlikely to be undermined and fall. Additionally, a rather large impromptu memorial to the man who was killed has grown up on the site where the trees were removed.

[Goose]

OK, back to the trees! Although many of you may know this already, I thought I would summarize what actually was done regarding the tree removal. Despite Stanford's attempts to characterize the tree removal as difficult, it was accomplished fairly rapidly. The reported initial plan was to spend about 5 days removing 4 trees. As I pointed out at the time, that would leave quite a few arguably dangerous large eucalyptus on the Santa Clara side of the creek. Stanford decided to "do the right thing" (more or less) and actually spent three weeks (blocking the right lane on Alpine Road) and removed a reported total of 10 trees. They hauled away most but not all of the trunks.

The grove of eucalyptus is greatly reduced, but strangely enough not eliminated. There are still some fairly large trees on the Santa Clara side of the creek. The only trees removed on the San Mateo side of the creek, as near as I can determine, were trees that were "in the way" of clearing the other side of the creek. Several very large eucalyptus that are very close to Alpine Road remain. The rationale may be that while they are close to Alpine they are (relatively) far from the creek and are therefore unlikely to be undermined and fall. Additionally, a rather large impromptu memorial to the man who was killed has grown up on the site where the trees were removed.