By Asta Young Santa Monica
Reading from SMDP’s local environment brief “Annual tree-trimming project” (Know Before You Go, July 23): “City trees will be trimmed at the following locations this summer...”
Why is the trimming schedule in the summer, when we are suffering from global warming — when people need shade and the health of trees will be compromised? Trees should be pruned during their dominant period in winter?
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 2, 2007. Read the original PDF.