Beautiful tree. To each his own, their property and all. Perhaps they couldn't incorporate it into their house plan.
1 posted on
05/14/2015 3:58:58 PM PDT by
Theoria
To: Theoria
If the town wanted the tree to stay, buy the property. If you don’t buy the property, shut up! Same goes for everyone who like to look at the tree.
2 posted on
05/14/2015 4:05:54 PM PDT by
GilesB
To: Theoria
If the municipality wanted to save the tree they should have put their money where their mouth was and bought the land.
They didn’t, so tough. Otherwise it would be a takings.
3 posted on
05/14/2015 4:06:18 PM PDT by
drbuzzard
(All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
To: Theoria
Sorry to hear this. I was wondering who Sandy is.
According to town officials, the tree was likely alive during the Revolutionary War. It was healthy, and had survived several severe weather situations, like Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, they said.
4 posted on
05/14/2015 4:06:23 PM PDT by
McGruff
(What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
To: Theoria
When I was a young’un in the 60s we had a house with a nice creek behind it and about 40 acres beyond that creek, half cow pasture half oak trees we played in. Some of those oaks were 200 years old, when I was in high school (so not bothered by such things) they cut those all down and put in an apartment complex now full of dreamers.
Looking back now that was the saddest part of my youth losing those trees.
5 posted on
05/14/2015 4:07:08 PM PDT by
Jolla
To: Theoria
No big deal. I have hegemoronic neighbors who want me to cut down large trees on MY property.
9 posted on
05/14/2015 4:14:05 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: Theoria
15 posted on
05/14/2015 4:36:23 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
To: Theoria
16 posted on
05/14/2015 4:37:09 PM PDT by
Raycpa
To: Theoria
Like my dad use to say,”Any idiot can cut down a tree but only God can grow one”.
17 posted on
05/14/2015 4:44:42 PM PDT by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: Theoria
20 posted on
05/14/2015 4:55:56 PM PDT by
x
To: Theoria
Developers should learn some respect or they will learn some communist “property rights.” Be decent people for a change. The dollar is good; but not all there is to life. Leftists will make them broke in a nanosecond.
To: Theoria
I remember the William Penn oak in my township being cut down in 1977. It was planted by Penn. The township wanted to “improve” the obstructed view at the fork of the road, so they removed it. They did however hand out slabs to anyone who wanted a chunk to remember it by.
32 posted on
05/14/2015 9:34:47 PM PDT by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Theoria
http://www.springfieldmontco.org/usr/docs/about/penns-manor.pdf
377 years old when they cut it down.
33 posted on
05/14/2015 9:38:10 PM PDT by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Theoria; Pelham; onyx; CatherineofAragon; Fledermaus
I have one of the largest chinkapin oaks in the US in front of my home on 10 acres
It’s around 450 years old
Given my home sits on a plantation home foundation with ancient cistern/well intact and that both Forrest and A.P. Stewart traversed our fair line between the eastern CSA FLANK and Main body at the center of the assault...of the Godawful bloody battle of Franklin TN..well we hope they took water under this tree with its by then late autumn leaves....
Needless to say....local folks and county would be distraught if I chopped it down....it’s truly huge
I like trees
34 posted on
05/15/2015 12:03:54 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
To: Theoria
If it was 200 years old, how did it survive the Revolutionary War? 200 years old would mean it was planted in 1815. Are they talking about the War of 1812?
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