I know some of y’all are getting sick of me, but this climate change thing is getting really bad.
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A bit confused. Is it saying the sea is rising and they had to move the trees?
Goodbye, Stumpy: DC's favorite little cherry tree to be removed from Tidal Basin
The National Park Service announced Wednesday that 159 cherry trees on the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park will be cut down later this year, to repair the seawall in that area
By Maggie More • Published March 13, 2024 • Updated on March 13, 2024 at 6:53 pm
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The century-old seawall of D.C.’s Tidal Basin needs work, but 159 cherry trees will have to be removed, including “Stumpy,” the tree that became a social media sensation for its ability to bloom despite its decaying trunk and minimal branches. But 274 new trees will be planted after the repairs. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.
You may have heard about Stumpy, the little cherry tree that could.
The tree is a social media sensation. A testament to the reality of climate change. A symbol of hope and perseverance in hard times, needed more than ever when he was first "discovered" in 2020.
But four years after his initial rise to fame, Stumpy's time with us is coming to an end.
The National Park Service announced Wednesday that 159 cherry trees on the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park will be cut down later this year to make way for seawall repairs -- and Stumpy, in his floodwater-ridden home, must go.
Logic dictates that Stumpy's death is necessary. The $113 million, multi-year repair of the seawall is a critical investment, the NPS says. The seawall, which was first constructed in the 1800s, has sunk more than five feet over the years. The waters have also risen, and that means the Tidal Basin floods twice a day, every day, and has for years.
It's why Stumpy is, well, stumpy.
"Too much water on a tree's roots can be just as damaging as too little," NPS spokesman Mike Litterst told us in an email last spring. "Excess soil moisture can reduce oxygen in the soil, damage fine root hairs, and render the root system unable to absorb water."
Without fixing the seawall, the floods will continue. Other trees would be constantly overwatered. Many of the cherry trees would eventually die outright. Replacing those trees would be impossible. Peak bloom would not look the same.
Logic dictates that to save future trees, and nearby American monuments, and possibly pedestrians in the area who would otherwise be walking in slippery, flooded, unsafe conditions, the seawall must be rehabilitated. And for the seawall to be rehabilitated, the trees must go.
Go, the trees will. The NPS says that "site preparation" near the Tidal Basin will start in May 2024.
"Tree locations and topography were considered in the construction planning, and every effort was made to minimize the number of trees that must be removed," the NPS says. The decision was made carefully. It also impacts non-cherry trees, around 300 trees in total.
Stumpy was never going to make it forever. He's just a tree, and trees can be replanted. It all makes logical sense.
Emotion, on the other hand, may tell a different story. What is there to say when a symbol of hope and perseverance has to be chopped down?
Did you read the whole story?
It had to happen to fix the seawall
Its sad but necessary
I think the intention of the post was to infer why it was necessary...... climate change.
Yeah I get it, like I said its sad really sad
but it was necessary and hopefully the public will respond and see that the small sacrifices we make NOW will result in significant gains
and it seems the government is taking it seriously at least in this instance to make sure its taken care of.
And sadly some of the damage...is already permanent.
@playahaitian hey thanks for cleaning up this post for me. Also my main point of posting was to point out climate change just like a couple days ago when I posted about that three day old sand dune that disappeared quickly in Massachusetts. No I do not like them cutting down trees but at the moment they don’t have a choice.
At this point, all eastern coastal cities are just trying to slow down the inevitable outcome of the rising seas waters.
WHAT??!!!
In this case a small part of it climate change issues, but more so the wall was built in the damn 1800's & should have been replaced a decade or more ago which may have saved them from having to cut down so many trees. But some of those trees needed to be replaced anyway due to age, disease etc.
The side walks around the tidal basis get extremely heavy traffic during the cherry blossom festival & the summer in general. I've always wondered why they didn't repair/replace the wall sooner, they've done so much other stuff around there.
The side walks around the tidal basis get extremely heavy traffic during the cherry blossom festival & the summer in general. I've always wondered why they didn't repair/replace the wall sooner, they've done so much other stuff around there.
Yeah, man. It’s already well-documented, especially in Florida and Maine.
Yep, it don’t even have to be a storm anymore. It just be regular high tide that will fuck shit up.
Streets closed when high tide causes more flooding in Hampton
Hampton was forced to close several streets after coastal neighborhoods were flooded with seawater for the second time in as many months.
www.boston.com
it close to 80 degrees in detroit yesterday smack dab in tha middle of winter.... 
.....this has surpassed just having summ weird weather...
.....this has surpassed just having summ weird weather...Similar threads
