It really was something to behold. Three years ago a neighborhood mobilized around an outrage a violation and this anger and hurt grew organically, it escalated. To be fair, like our experience with the Surfing Madonna, Encinitas was put on the map through the press carrying the story of 11 trees being cut down in Leucadia's Orpheus Park.
A host of these community members follow in these clips and each brings information worth hearing. A lawyer, a teacher, an arborist, a scientist, a chief treehugger, former mayors and more to be featured another day. If you see them on the street, please tell them you watched the clips. Let's acknowledge each other when we act with engagement. It's encouraging. Courage isn't a trait of many, but millions of us are able to encourage. It's easy but surprisingly all too rare.
If you want to take this (approximately 38 minutes) in smaller doses, simply come back another time and type "trees" in the "search this blog" box in the right hand column or click on "trees" in the list of labels. All posts related to this week of trees (and this will be true for future tree stories) will be brought to the front of the line.
