Charlie Trie? :)
What sort of moron thinks you can relocate a 180 year old oak tree? That takes a special kind of stupid.
I am not nearly familiar enough with the details to make an informed decision, but man that’s a beautiful tree. They moved it, they didn’t cut it down. But I guess in California there’s no such thing as private property any more.
Bullflop. It’s a tree. It resides on my property. I will cut it, burn it, turn it into pulp, turn it into boards and build a house with it.
The only thing to know here is it’s California.
I think they are going to kill that tree.
They aren’t going to be able to get enough of its roots to maintain that much foliage.
They should have left it. They didn’t plant it, it came with the property, and they should have left it.
Its a tree!! More will grow.
Micromanaging grass. Impressive.
Tie a $600,000 Ribbon ‘round the Old Oak Tree
Just shows you how arrogant all that money makes people act. $600K is probably chump change to them.
Shame about the trees though - they were worth more than a pile of rich California liberals.
If the tree was 185 years old, then it was planted in 1834.
Federal Government in 1834
President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-New York)
Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (until June 2), John Bell (Whig-Tennessee) (starting June 2)
Congress: 23rd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_in_the_United_States
The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.[11]
Tree planted in 1834
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1825: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway in the world, is opened.
1826: Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
1829: First electric motor built.
1837: Telegraphy patented.
1841: The word “dinosaur” is coined by Richard Owen
1844: First publicly funded telegraph line in the world—between Baltimore and Washington—sends demonstration message on 24 May, ushering in the age of the telegraph. This message read “What hath God wrought?” (Bible, Numbers 23:23)
1849: The safety pin and the gas mask are invented.
1855: Bessemer process enables steel to be mass-produced.
1856: World’s first oil refinery in Romania
1858: Invention of the phonautograph, the first true device for recording sound.
1863: First section of the London Underground opens.
1866: Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.
1867: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1869: First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on 10 May.
1870: Rasmus Malling-Hansen’s invention the Hansen Writing Ball becomes the first commercially sold typewriter.
1873: Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1878: First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut.
1879: Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.
1881: First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming, Britain.
1884: Sir Hiram Maxim invents the first self-powered Machine gun.
1885: Singer begins production of the ‘Vibrating Shuttle’. which would become the most popular model of sewing machine.
1886: Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile.
1890: The cardboard box is invented.
1892: John Froelich develops and constructs the first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor.
1894: Karl Elsener invents the Swiss Army knife.
1894: First gramophone record.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen identifies x-rays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century#Inventions
Democrat Property Taxes destroying old growth trees.
Sorry old oak, Democrats hate you.
James Madison
President (1809-1817)
Born: 1751
Died: 1836 (last Founding Father to die)
Abraham Lincoln worked as a boatman, store clerk, surveyor, militia soldier, and became a lawyer in Illinois.
He was elected to the Illinois Legislature in 1834, and was reelected in 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1844..."
He was elected president of the United States in 1860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Abraham_Lincoln
You only think you own your private property. NO. The government lets you use it, but you get the bills for maintenance and above all the taxes.
I have friends who had a 100ft Redwood in their front yard.
They finally moved as there was nothing they could do about this 5’ diameter post in their front yard.
I think the only relevant question is did they save enough on taxes from the easement (and make enough on the house) over the years to still make a profit after the fine.
If so, then it was worth it to try to move the tree if they liked it.
If not then it was pretty dumb. UNLESS the loss is small enough to be worth thumbing their nose at the environazis.
(”Restrict my land usage, I’ll kill your damn trees!”)
We lived in Thousand Oaks, CA, and they worshipped and protected the oak trees - much more than citizens.