The comment from JJmama is spot on. The Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan states several times the benefits of preserving existing tree canopies and even formalized it as Strategy A5/A6/A7 on page 95, where in their 'What We Heard' section they note this survey response: "“The number one priority needs to be preservation of wooded areas that contain our trees for carbon reduction.”
It is staggeringly disappointing that the City Council has taken no real steps to effect the TCMP in this case. They've taken a lot of heat for failing to achieve much in terms of our homeless population but admittedly that is a complex and difficult issue to tackle; preventing existing stands of trees such as this one from being cut down should be an easy win, but they utterly failed. The job isn't to talk a good game while working on getting reelected, but rather to DO THE JOB. So many surveys and "action plans" but so very little action.
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