[ACT] CO Blvd Trees Cut Down @ 2:00am Last Night! (Photos + Mtgat Vroman's Stump Tomorrow 11am)

Sat Feb 21 11:04:58 PST 2009

I agree with Steve

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From: act-bounces at fourpalms.org [mailto:act-bounces at fourpalms.org] On Behalf
Of SSL
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:17 AM
To: chaneytrail at yahoogroups.com; act at fourpalms.org; Gaboon; Bev Huntsberger;
Greg McPhee
Cc: James McPherson
Subject: Re: [ACT] CO Blvd Trees Cut Down @ 2:00am Last Night! (Photos +
Mtgat Vroman's Stump Tomorrow 11am)

Is any Pasadena based activist organizing over the replacement of these
trees, that proper trees be selected and that they be planted correctly?
Wouldn't that be a better use of time than crying over spilled milk?  This
is a battle that could be won if fought properly.....

--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Gaboon <gaboon at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Gaboon <gaboon at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [ACT] CO Blvd Trees Cut Down @ 2:00am Last Night! (Photos + Mtg at
Vroman's Stump Tomorrow 11am)
To: chaneytrail at yahoogroups.com, act at fourpalms.org
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 9:35 PM

FYI. Please cross-post to neighborhood listserves and share with others...

Colorado Trees Cut Down 2:00am Last Night

Remaining Trees Need Your Help!

Rally tomorrow at 11:00am in front of Vroman's next to the stump of the old
tree

I hope you can forward this message to your associates as some trees on

Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena could use our help and support.

There will be a gathering this Saturday (Feb. 21, 2009) at 11 AM in front of

Vroman's bookstore (695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101) to peacefully

protest the City Council's controversial decision to cut down a bunch of

healthy, beautiful ficus and other trees along historic Colorado Blvd.

between Los Robles Av. and Lake Av. and replace them with palm and gingko

trees.

We feel there can be a win-win situation to preserve the trees and address

the concerns of the business owners. To that effect we would like to make

some signs and banners and hang them from those trees and maybe have a tree

sit-in with live acoustic guitar, a passionate and peaceful demonstration.

We will take whatever people can offer (song, moral support, advice,
petitions,

other ideas, etc.).

They can contact me if interested in helping (
<mailto:kecman at srl.caltech.edu> kecman at srl.caltech.edu

626-354-2534), but mainly show up on Saturday and spread the word as far as

you can since time is short!

Thank you!

Branislav Kecman

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Dear Tree Huggers,

Last night, around 2:00am, the old trees on Colorado (in front of Kinko's
and Vroman's) were cut down. I was told those trees would not come down
until April. It's nesting season, too. Any eggs and nestlings that were in
those trees are now dead. The trees are dead. Below are before and after
photos by Mr. Kecman and his wife. He and others are devastated. Passersby
are shocked and angry that the trees are gone. The street is now lined with
large stumps. That block of Colorado looks like a cheap strip mall in some
economically depressed Central Valley town. The majestic, healthy trees
lining the Blvd. have been destroyed in one night of chainsaws and ropes. 

I've left messages with the Mayor's office and City Council members (see
list below) expressing my outrage and demanding a temporary moratorium on
further tree destruction until the public can respond. Once a tree is gone,
it is gone forever. What's their rush? Perhaps increasing momentum to save
the trees was building to fast, putting the Mayor, Council and the Pasadena
Playhouse District on the hot seat? 

Please call and/or e-mail the Mayor's office and as many City Council
members as you can. Express your own frustration and outrage. Tell them to
halt cutting down the remaining trees until after nesting season and after
further public discussion of this matter.

I suggest you also call Vroman's at:

626-449-5320

Tell the staff how you feel about the "stealth destruction" of the trees in
the wee hours of the morning. Let Mr. Joel Sheldon, Vroman's owner and major
shareholder, know that you will take your business to other independent
bookstores if he doesn't support an immediate moratorium on removing the
remaining mature trees.

I will not shop or eat at restaurants on Colorado Blvd from now on and may
avoid Pasadena altogether. I will take my money where trees are respected,
and hope others will do the same. I will tell the businesses and restaurants
on Colorado why I am going elsewhere with my money in these difficult
economic times. There must be tangible consequences for Pasadena's
environmentally destructive, irresponsible actions; otherwise, the loss of
mature, urban tree canopy and bird habitat will continue. I intend to send a
clear message by taking my own business elsewhere, for what little that is
worth. Then again, if all of you and others do the same, we can make a
difference. Pasadena is going in the wrong direction. If the City won't
listen to its own Urban Forestry Advisory Committee (UFAC), to a JPL
Atmospheric scientist, to the public or to common sense and environmental
facts... then maybe they'll listen to the silence of customers going
elsewhere?

I don't yet know how many of the Indian Laurel Fig and Carrotwood Trees
remain, but I will find out. 

This is so tragic. Stand by for more photos. "Trees are the Answer," as the
bumper sticker says. Please contact the Mayor and City Council to request a
moratorium on removing the remaining trees on Colorado.

Thank you,

Lori

The trees in the photo below were chopped down last night:

I took the following photos in the wee hours earlier today (Friday 2/20/09),
during the slaughter of ficus trees on Colorado Blvd. in front of Vroman's
Bookstore.

-- Branislav Kecman

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Contact Info:

Bill Bogaard

Mayor of Pasadena & Pasadena City Council

626-744-4311

Fax:  626-744-3727

bbogaard at ci.pasadena.ca.us

P.O. Box 7115

Pasadena, CA 91109-7215

District 1:

Councilmember Jacque Robinson

Field Representative:  Tina Williams 

district1 at ci.pasadena.ca.us

626 744-4444

Fax: 626 396-7300

District 2:

Councilmember Margaret McAustin

Field Representative:  Margo Morales-Fuller

mfuller at cityofpasadena.net

626 744-4742

District 3:

Councilmember Chris Holden

Field Representative:  Jacqueline McIntyre

jmcintyre at cityofpasadena.net

626 744-4738

Fax:  626 744-4774

District 4:

Vice Mayor Steve Haderlein

Field Representative:  Rhonda L. Stone

rstone at cityofpasadena.net

626 744-4740

District 5:

Councilmember Victor Gordo 

Field Representative:         Vannia DeLaCuba

vdelacuba at ci.pasadena.ca.us

626 744-4741  or   626 831-8609

Fax:  626 398-1836

District 6:

Councilmember Steve Madison

Field Representative:  Takako Suzuki

NO e-mail listed! Use online form under "Contact" tab at:

http://cityofpasadena.net/district6/

626 744-4739

District 7:

Councilmember Sid Tyler

Field Representative:  Pam Thyret

NO e-mail listed! Use online form under "Contact" tab at:

http://cityofpasadena.net/district7/

626 441-4802

Fax:  626 441-4806

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Pasadena Star News

Steve Lambert, Editor

(626) 962-8811 x2410

steve.lambert at inlandnewspapers.com

Larry Wilson, Public Editor

larry.wilson at sgvn.com

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