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Remove dying trees in Legacy Garden for safety and open area for pollinator garden. Add pines to area.
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Nine dying trees will be removed in Legacy Garden for safety reasons. The trees were listed in fair to poor condition in the 2019 tree report. The trees will be cut down and the stumps ground out. This will open the area to improve growing conditions for a new Monarch butterfly pollinator garden (PEPC #123107) by opening the canopy of trees. To compensate for the loss of the trees, native white pines trees will be planted along 9th and Edwards streets on the edge of Legacy Garden creating a natural buffer for street noise, and to help screen modern buildings and streets in the viewshed from the Lincoln Home.
This project and PEPC #123107 aim to make the Legacy Garden area more inviting for visitor use, and less inviting for illegal drug activity and trash dumping that is currently taking place. By creating more of a buffer on the edge, this hopes to limit pass-through pedestrian traffic that is dumping trash or conducting illegal activities, while creating an aesthetically pleasing appearance from the backyard of the Lincoln Home.
The trees to be removed include: 2 Silver Maple, 1 Hackberry, 1 Flowering Dogwood, 1 Sweet Gum, 2 Siberian Elm, 1 Northern Red Oak, and 1 Sycamore.
This project and PEPC #123107 aim to make the Legacy Garden area more inviting for visitor use, and less inviting for illegal drug activity and trash dumping that is currently taking place. By creating more of a buffer on the edge, this hopes to limit pass-through pedestrian traffic that is dumping trash or conducting illegal activities, while creating an aesthetically pleasing appearance from the backyard of the Lincoln Home.
The trees to be removed include: 2 Silver Maple, 1 Hackberry, 1 Flowering Dogwood, 1 Sweet Gum, 2 Siberian Elm, 1 Northern Red Oak, and 1 Sycamore.