News Hey, School District, Leave Those Trees Alone!
posted by on August 25 at 17:41 PM
A judge has ordered the Seattle School District to halt plans to remove a grove of 68 trees from Ingraham High School’s campus in North Seattle.
Under the judge’s order, the district must now reapply for permits from the city and go through a full environmental review.
Seattle Schools spokesman David Tucker says the district is hoping to get the case dismissed.
The district already owes a logging company as much as $17,000 for delaying the tree removal, and Tucker says the district is also worried about dealing with rising construction costs. “Any delays start to effect…construction costs and our ability to continue with the project,” Tucker says.
I’ve got a call in to Save Our Trees spokesman Steve Zemke to talk about his legal victory.
How about the Judge's decision? That's more to the point than a party's spin.
The Ingrahm HS renovation project missed a bet at the design/scoping stage. The school's rare urban grove of mature Douglas Firs with its symbiotic web of plants and creatures is a teaching opportunity in areas like resource management, ecology, biology and zoology, not to mention a benefit to the local and broader community. Ripping it apart shows little awareness of the skill-sets needed for managing tomorrows ecological turmoil as the Earth's carrying capacity is stretched beyond its limits.
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