Thanks to all who passed on from Casey Trees:
“For more than 60 years, the trees at RFK have been growing into the giants you see today—living landmarks that frame the stadium and provide much-needed relief from the heat.
Now, their fate remains uncertain. Last month, the DC Council advanced legislation granting developers blanket permission to cut down at least 30 historic trees without even trying to incorporate them into the new campus. It’s unacceptable. (more…)
Thanks to Terry for sending from Adams Morgan:
“Tree grew through a sign pole.”
Nature always finds a way! Too cool.
Thanks to Mark for sending yesterday from Logan Circle: “Not sure what triggered it as there was no wind or rain, but the tree must have already had issues. (more…)
A reader writes:
“At base of the Klingle Valley Trail. An area with almost zero car traffic. Huge mature tree fell. The woman inside the car is incredibly lucky to be unhurt. Two feet and it would have been a different story. Car is totaled, whole front including windshield and good portion of roof is smashed. DCFD was on scene to cut away the tree trunk to get her out.
These recent storms and extreme heat seem to be taking down more big trees than I can remember lately.”
More photos: (more…)
photo by Jim Havard
Thanks to Jim for sharing his Backyard Serviceberry Harvest from Hill East.
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Reno near Warren Street, NW
Thanks to Josh for sending from North Cleveland Park yesterday.
Always sad to see the big ones go down. Note the road/curb buckled – oof.
“Dear PoPville,
Are you familiar with these slash marks of trees around this size at this height? (more…)
Thanks to Nils for sending “Massachusetts Ave / Scott Circle closed due to fallen tree.” (more…)
Martha and fellow Druids
The following was written by Martha M. Ertman:
“DC is a company town. If you don’t like the company of the Mump Administration, you can still do micro, focused good to keep the embers of democracy or basic respect for the environment alive until the political and cultural winds enable macro changes. A small group of NW women who call ourselves Druids have done just that to fend off the sense that we’re hopeless or helpless to combat climate change.
Being at or near retirement, with kids largely out of the house, we have bandwidth to meet monthly to do what we can. The spark was a 2022 New York Times article on Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a real Druid and genius octogenarian botanist and medical biochemist who for decades has climate-change adapted native trees on her 160 acres in Ontario, Canada. I read a couple of her nine books, and embraced her “bioplan” that every person on earth should plant 6 trees to buy us time to solve the climate crisis.
Neighbors joined: a journalist, educators, a few attorneys, and most importantly, a landscaper. We watched Dr. Diana’s documentary Call of the Forest – made by the people who brought us March of the Penguins — and discovered that Casey Trees was already harnessing volunteer labor and enthusiasm to planting native trees – 6000+ a year – in Washington DC.
We still meet monthly to do be a bit of the change we want to see in the world. Arbor Day dinner complete with gorgeous tree-stump shaped chocolate cake, touring the Arboretum at American University, or donning elbow-length suede gloves to remove invasive weeds from Rock Creek Park. (more…)
photo by Tim Brown
From DDOT:
“Today, The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the launch of the 2024-2025 tree planting season with plans to plant several thousand trees across the District to replace those dead or diseased as well as to increase the District’s tree canopy. (more…)