Oak Trees in front of Memorial City GONE....

[houstoner]

I was reading recently about the same thing happening on Kirby Drive. Houston needs to get with it and stop the madness.

Scores of live oaks to face ax in project to widen Kirby | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

[Mom2Feebs]

Someone remind me why I don't have Wysiwyg on ignore? LOL

I wouldn't be nearly as upset if they just relocated the darn things. I mean, I understand issues with infrastructure and whatnot, but golly, you'd think they could do something to preserve them in some way. Houston has a very sad history of this. I almost fainted dead away when I was in the medical center 6 mos ago and the 50-70 year old oaks (about 10 of them) on the back side of Methodist Hospital were chopped down. Doesn't TMC make enough money to hire a tree expert to get these things out of the ground and relocated? Gads. It's just really, really awful. Is there any conservation group out there that is concentrating on this trend?

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by Mom2Feebs

Is there any conservation group out there that is concentrating on this trend?

I think its called houston stay at home moms club. I support them.

[Mom2Feebs]

Oh thank GOD! I do have him on ignore.

[Redrover]

Wysiwyg, you're just plain rude (and mean) and by the way, those big ditches are called retention ponds. Mom2Feebs, there is a group called Trees for Houston Trees For Houston (http://www.treesforhouston.org/Public/index.asp - broken link) whose stated purpose is to plant, promote and protect trees in Houston. Anyone who can't see the benefit of an oak tree covered in leaves over a date palm has no clue about the process of photogenesis. Date palms don't begin to have the leaf surface of a mature oak. A big part of the problem here in Houston vis a vie cutting down mature trees is that development is virtually unrestricted in the city. The developers in this city have pretty much had their way with just about anything they've wanted to do and chopping down mature trees is infinitely cheaper than relocating them. It's all about the bottom line.

[Wysiwyg]

very irrational. these days it costs about $700 for my company to move a person's office supplies from one desk to another 5ft away. and you think a tree expert can move mature trees with negligible amount of money? golly.

[Redrover]

Where did I say that the cost was negligible? I realize all to well that the cost to relocate far exceeds the cost to chop down and replant. But you have to factor in the time it takes to grow a tree to maturity so if you amortize the relocation cost over the years it takes to grow a replacement to the same size and exchange capacity, there is no question about the better option. And at the end of the day, sometimes cost just ought to take a back seat to the right thing to do. We have become such a disposable society in so many areas and preserving a grand old (healthy) tree should be worth the effort and cost.

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by Redrover

Wysiwyg, you're just plain rude (and mean) and by the way, those big ditches are called retention ponds. .

thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by Redrover

Anyone who can't see the benefit of an oak tree covered in leaves over a date palm has no clue about the process of photogenesis. Date palms don't begin to have the leaf surface of a mature oak. A big part of the problem here in Houston vis a vie cutting down mature trees is that development is virtually unrestricted in the city. The developers in this city have pretty much had their way with just about anything they've wanted to do and chopping down mature trees is infinitely cheaper than relocating them. It's all about the bottom line.

no i'm not from another planet (no i dont think youre rude, silly). no offence but your too focused on this 20x20' piece of land where that great tree is/was. somewhere out there are people with huge tree farms moving trees all over houston as an effect of urban development

[arbucle]

Trees are great until you have to stroke out 10,000 bucks of your money to move a mature oak.Which i did in my backyard for aswimming pool.Not much fun .