Editor:
While Gibsons gets a lot of deserved praise for its flowers and greenery, one of the areas in which I feel the Town’s flora leadership has been overlooked is its development of the Two-Arborist Media Push.
This preemptive strategy, displayed impressively for the black walnut tree behind Molly’s Reach, helps to protect the posteriors of all at Town hall in the event that cutting down the specified tree leaves behind a stump or log sections which don’t exactly illustrate a preexisting lack of structural integrity.
The current cornsilk press release advises people that they still have a few months left for photos and for commemorating the tree as they choose, and why not? Who says that a tree can’t be exactly dangerous enough that it’s fine to leave it up for the summer but you wouldn’t want to expose it to the weight of autumn snowstorms?
I think this is exactly the right direction for Town communications, so I suggest a further enhancement: Choose a different popular local tree every month, and issue a press release stating it will have to be cut down someday but two arborists will have been consulted before then so people should start saying their goodbyes now.
David Stow, Elphinstone
