If you’ve driven along Francis Parkman Drive recently you may have seen a sizable forest area clearcut by the city to remove dead trees, some of which killed by an insect that feeds by sucking sap from hemlocks.
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Remember the winter of 2015? If the 100-plus inches of snow didn’t depress you, there was the chopping down of more than a hundred trees around Forest Hills for the Casey Arborway project.
Now for the good news, nature lovers: The first trees of the mammoth project will soon be planted.
Peak cherry blossoms @ArnoldArboretum @universalhub @02130News #JamaicaPlain pic.twitter.com/CFPq2jfGAs
— Rachel (@rachjournalist) May 3, 2015
Jamaica Plain writer Rachel Lebeaux took in the magnificent cherry trees blossoming at Arnold Arboretum.
Toole Square, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Credit: Chris Helms
Residents, especially those not clued in to the massive Casey Arborway project, are expressing sadness or even outrage over the removal of 160 trees from around Forest Hills Station. What planners haven’t done very well is explain that by project’s end, there will be about 400 more trees than before the crews started cutting them down.
Deb Beatty Mel rose early and was rewarded with this autumn sunrise on Peters Hill in the Arboretum. Thanks, Deb, for sharing this in the Jamaica Plain News photo pool on Flickr!