I’m 67 and a lifelong tree hugger. This really breaks my heart! Why not go around the tree and extend the shoreline out farther as well as higher! If it’s a money thing I’ll donate towards the extra cost!
I wish I could save Stumpy ... I hope to visit it this Saturday as I travel for a memorial ... I was unable to visit on our way back from Eclipse on Tuesday/Wednesday due to weather.
I’ll be in Washington Saturday I want clippings from stumpy and only stumpy I have an orchard in Detroit Michigan and would love the next generation of Stumpies to grow there
No. I'm no fan of the NPS, but they have to do something about the constant flooding at the Jefferson Memorial. The ground is sinking and the water is getting higher. Its a massive project.
I see no reason to remove these historic trees. Build the wall further into the water, and leave the trees undisturbed. Also, I have seen huge Live Oak trees moved in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas. Where there is a will, there is a way.
If you see no reason to remove the trees you only listened to the story selectively. The wall needs to be raised (and assumably so does some land behind it) because the water level is rising.
That's bc Texas wastes money on dumb projects like moving trees, instead of modernizing their infrastructure, like problems with the electrical grid after hurricanes (sound familiar), and making sure their citizens have proper heating in winter.
Save the tree, it deserves it, not that hard, just save the tree because it represents so much to so many, the ultimate metaphor, the technology exists to save the tree, so do it!
Come on! How could it be impossible to move Stumpy? It may be expensive but it should be done. I'll bet that a Gofundme campaign would gather up enough moolah.
Bartlett Tree should bring their 90in tree spade truck in on Arbor Day to save Stumpy. 2 things would be accompanied, the significance of Arbor Day and The Care of Trees(young and old)
@@zbagz01 Yes, I used to work with a tree company that removed trees like Stumpy and it's bigger cousins all the time. We dug up trees up to 30' plus high and weighing up to 20,000 pounds, routinely.
Stumpy may die, either way, try to save ALL the trees. It will take a human generation, for the newly planted cherries to be even remotely as lush as the current trees. Just a spectacular lack of imagination from the National Park Service.
They should allow for a more natural floodplain. They’re going to spend millions and continue to spend millions on this single project. For all the government agencies that try to promote natural shorelines, it surprises me the ACE, NPS, and others are in favor of rebuilding the sea wall.
In 1865 Japan sent it's representatives to Washington DC to congratulate Lincoln on keeping the Union Whole. Sakura, Cherry Trees were planted up and down the east coast to see if they would survive to cold, and bloom in the spring. Boston, No. NYC, No, Philly, Yes! In 1908 Japan survived it's own Civil War, so in 1912Japan gave the people of the United States enough Sakura trees to hang every member of the government they needed too, from the SCOTUS, to every member of Congress, to the President if needed! In a speech made at the dedication of the trees, one speaker said, May this land never fear a Civil war, unless the Government cuts these trees down, as a sign of a broken trust with it's people. Yikes!
Why do Americans call them CHERRY trees? They don't produce any fruit.... They are Japanese SAKURA trees, in english translated to CHERRY BLOSSOM, not simply CHERRY or Cherries.... Ignorance.
@@zbagz01 the water is getting higher because most of D.C. is built on marsh-land that was filled in. You can only tame Mother Nature for so long before she reasserts herself. "Climate change" has nothing to do with it.
