I agree the brush-cutting on the beach trail is too much. Not only is it ugly and takes out native plants in addition to invasive, it seems to be encouraging the profusion of the invasive plants we don’t want. So, it’s counter-productive in the long run. Our organization—the Seattle Nature Alliance—has been talking to the Parks Department about this sort of treatment for years, but they keep doing it. By the way, it was SNA that had arranged that initial walk-through about the tree work mentioned above with the Parks arborists, and we came to the same conclusion—the tree work is reasonable. But, the brush cutting is work is not. We’ll be following up once again, and will be posting something on our Facebook page and blog about it. Also, we have been talking with Parks for years about mowing and have finally made some progress there, too. They are working with us on that.

go check it out. Its heartbreaking!

The work may have also been done in preparation for the tree removals that will be happening along that trail. They need access. I’m not sure though because i haven’t been down that way in a few days.

Normally the parks crews does this work, not Seattle’s urban forestry department that is doing the tree removal work. The arborists I met with are respectful guys and they take pride in their work.

I can’t believe that we tax payers are letting butchers be our park stewards.