Washington Street Chainsaw Massacre of healthy trees adds to drought-caused losses of innocent young trees

— News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News

All that remains of a recently flourishing ginkgo tree
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On a quiet Sunday morning, chainsaw-packing personnel tied to the City of Quincy cut down both dead tree as well as inexplicably a number of healthy young tress planted along Washington Street between the rotary on the Quincy side of the Fore River Bridge to Pond Street near a 7/11 convenience store in recent years with grand fanfare by the Koch Maladministration so as to affect improving its consideration of the long mostly instead ignored Quincy Point neighborhood.

Already upwards of 40% or perhaps even more of the roughly seventy trees were seen as dead by Quincy Quarry arborist Paul Bunyan and which Quincy Quarry reported recently as a follow-up to an earlier series of Quincy Quarry exposés of this still ongoing slaughter of innocent young trees.

Now, however, given an informal quick count of only eighteen still standing and living young trees, such indicates that roughly as many as 24 living trees may have been cut down over this past weekend as well as works out to a mortality rate of just short of 75% to date

Unfortunately, providing a hard number as to exactly how many live trees were chainsawed this past weekend is not readily possible as previously the Quarry had been focusing on counting the dead rather than keeping a tight count on the living.

One can only hope that parishioners at St. Joseph are praying for this barely hanging on survivor
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Regardless, what struck the Quincy Quarry personnel monitoring recent events was how many of the recently chainsawed healthy trees were in better to much better shape than the few remaining along Washington Street.

Also troubling is that the current approximately 75% mortality of young trees planted less than four years ago is abjectly inexcusable. 

Granted, planting trees along roadways poses risks ranging from snowplowing, salt spread to melt ice, and motor vehicle strikes, none of the trees appear to have been fatally struck by a motor vehicle and such thus makes the 75% fatality rate even more excessive than normative expectations.

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