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According to this statement, the trees are coming down in Richardson Grove. Jeff Muskrat is rousing the troops.
Addendum: Uh, I don’t know what’s really going on actually, but if you read the post through the link early on you might want to head over now and read all the comments before getting too worked up.
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May 15, 2010 at 7:26 am
Kym
Odd that Jeff’s blog doesn’t say anything about this.
I’m still checking around but no one appears to know anything about any redwoods being cut.
May 15, 2010 at 8:38 am
edsvoice
Eric,
It would make sense to check with Hank Sims? You need to check out your own link to the story, read the comments at the bottom of the page from this morning, Kym is right Eric, this is odd indeed.
May 15, 2010 at 9:17 am
Fred Mangels
Muskrat supposedly wrote, ONLY YESTERDAY, CALTRANS FELL MULTIPLE 3-4 FOOT DIAMETER REDWOODS RIGHT NEXT TO THE 101 JUST SOUTH OF THE REDWOOD CURTAIN AT RICHARDSON GROVE STATE PARK NEAR LEGGETT!.
I thought Richardson Grove was just north of Piercy? Legget is some ways south of Piercy, isn’t it?
May 15, 2010 at 9:53 am
Dave Kirby
Typical disinformation from the muskrat.
May 15, 2010 at 10:00 am
the reasonable anonymous
Nothing about this on savericharsongrove.org
May 15, 2010 at 10:00 am
the reasonable anonymous
oops, that’s saverichardsongrove.org
May 15, 2010 at 10:03 am
the reasonable anonymous
Also nothing on saverichardsongrove.blogspot.com
May 15, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Dave Kirby
This is indicative of much of the knee jerk opposition to the project. These people don’t even know where the grove is. By the way there are no 3-4′ trees scheduled to be cut in Richardson Grove. I can hardly wait to some tree sitter set up a perch in an 8″ Redwood.
May 15, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Anonymous
Is someone from Cal-Trans behind this dis-information?
The knee JERK is dave kirby.
May 15, 2010 at 4:48 pm
the reasonable anonymous
Most recent comment on the NCJ thread:
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Comment / By Jeff Muskrat / Today, 3:55 p.m.
That was private information, Mr. Sims and Mr. Burns.
I never authorized either of you to print it. I’m not even sure how you “acquired” the email, as it was only sent to organizers.
You will be hearing from my attorney.
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Hey that’s pretty funny. Jeff, a word to the wise, once you send out the e-mail to a group of people, there ain’t a darned thing you can do about it if one of them forwards it to someone else, including a reporter.
And Hank doesn’t have to ask your permission to print an email that was forwarded to him. So I guess your attorney will have to find something else to chat with Hank about.
May 15, 2010 at 4:52 pm
the reasonable anonymous
Oh, and the funniest thing about Jeff’s latest comment is that he did not comment at all on whether this was a false alarm or an accurate account of tree felling near Richardson Grove, and whether that tree felling has ANYTHING to do with the Richardson Grove realignment, or whether he was just putting out an unsubstantiated, sensationalizing scare report designed to boost his recruitment of volunteers. (I’m guessing the latter.)
May 15, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Moonshadow
When I drove up from Guerneville on 13th I didn’t see any cutting . . . there was some tanoak cutting along the utility right of way next to the highway near Confusion Hill by the same company that has been stringing line further south.
May 15, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Fred Mangels
there was some tanoak cutting along the utility right of way next to the highway near Confusion Hill by the same company that has been stringing line further south.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that is what’s being advertised as a “Richardson Grove” cut. That’s what these people do.
May 15, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Anon
Maybe the tree sitters will also try to get up in the “weedy” trees like Alders. They could string big rubber bands around all of them and put one small person on top of the trees. Have to agree that for someone to get up in an 8 inch redwood tree might be interesting when it breaks or falls over onto the highway.
There aren’t that many big redwoods next to the highway and some of those have already been hit by cars and survived even with repaving the road over the years. Maybe they like their roots covered. Anyone ever do a study on this? Headwaters Fund could probably pay a couple of professors to look into it on a grant and we might know in a few years (or not) as they seem to do all these wacky studies for everything.
Saw the article with the areas of trees to be cut and looked OK to me. Looks like what they did going up to Crescent City. I have actually seen more redwoods blown down in that area that had to be removed from the road.
Lots of people said that the only thing to do was a bypass to save the redwoods and Richardson Grove. How many trees would be cut down to put in a highway with a bypass? Think they could find an area with no trees? No redwoods? I like the Richardson Grove area to drive through but have to admit have almost been hit by trucks and big motorhomes towing cars that could barely get through there. At times we pull a trailer ourselves and I always hope that we get through without a big truck coming along and tearing off our mirrors.
May 16, 2010 at 8:55 am
brian
The ONLY thing MuskRAT cares about, his ego and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
May 16, 2010 at 9:25 am
Ernie's Place
The showboating and lies that some environmentalist put forth give true environmentalism a bad name. Sadly, there are people that believe this crap.
May 16, 2010 at 10:57 am
Dave Kirby
Any real environmentalist should see that the kind of cry wolf B.S. that has surrounded the Richardson Grove project can only hurt the cause in the long run.
May 16, 2010 at 2:50 pm
anonymous#1
The same old tired conversation about RG. In the long run the right of way needs to change to the other side of the river to a wider road and the coming light rail of the future. Why not start now? Leave the Park alone and enhance the Redwood experience by removing the intrusive traffic of all kinds.
Widen this conversation.