Partial to Home: Why we should care about trees
Birney Imes
When’s the best time to plant a tree?
Answer: Twenty years ago.
Answer: Now.
The same set of answers could apply to the question, when should a community set up a program to manage its trees?
So says Misty Booth, the Starkville-based Urban and Community Forestry coordinator for the Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC).
Trees are part of a city’s infrastructure and as such need management, says Booth.
The Columbus of my childhood radiated from a Main Street lined with lovely turn-of-the-century homes shaded by tall, graceful oaks and elms. The homes have disappeared, making way for banks, convenience stores and commercial buildings, while many of the trees, on Main and elsewhere, have been lost to time and indifference.
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A cell tower disguised as a eucalyptus tree is tucked away at the rear of a Santa Ana business park. Los Angeles Times/TNS
LOS ANGELES: A gentle breeze rustles the eucalyptus tree, its dark green foliage quivering under a cloudy Santa Ana sky. At the base of its sturdy trunk, the leaves of a fallen branch bear the scars of hungry insects.
A stand of eucalyptuses sways across the road. But this tree, surrounded by a spiky metal fence, isn’t like the others.
“AT&T authorized personnel only!” a sign warns.
This tree isn’t actually a tree at all – it’s a cellular transmission tower, one among hundreds or more that now blanket Southern California.