If you watched some of the clips with this week's marathon of past protests at Orpheus Park and realize that only recently word came of the Tree City USA designation, you'll see that the Urban Forest plan has moved very, very slowly through the departmental channels, through staff writing and research and the public attempt to get it on the city council agenda. Tony Kranz, an abiding advocate for an urban forest ordinance, leads off in the 2010 clip below.
To go back to the timeline of the video clips that follow, six months following the Orpheus tree cutting debacle, city staff presented what they called an Urban Forest Management Plan.
The public, the council questions followed. Again, some facts about Encinitas urban forest are very often more informative than staff presentations. Here's a taste.
