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...city of Cambridge has the same casual indifference to trees. Sure, there are a few scattered parks around. There's even a City Arborist. But for the most part, the landscape is urban and concrete. The largest areas of open space are peripheral to the city, along the Charles River and at Fresh Pond. This geographical marginality represents a greater truth--trees and the natural autumn landscape just aren't that important to Cambridge dwellers...
...sent a couple of people to Rensselaerville, New York, and sent our arborist to North Carolina for an arborists conference," Haley said...
...biggest thing from the standpoint of the city is that the tree is innocent and defenseless," says Kelley. "It doesn't have the conscience to go out and hurt someone. As an arborist we look at the individual tree. To us, it's a tree, pure and simple...
...City Arborist Jack. R. Kelley says the vandal's identity is unimportant, adding that the vandalization occurred six weeks after the Lampoon requested the tree be removed...
According to City Arborist Jack R. Kelley, "Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoon took it upon themselves to put an axe to that tree." Yet despite incontrovertible evidence, Dean of the College Archie C. Epps III said, "some persons--we do not know if they were members of the Lampoon--attacked the tree...in effect killing the tree...