“Metuchen’s trees are largely past their peak maturity, and we are losing trees at an alarming rate,” Hart said as part of a presentation she gave at an Oct. 6, 2008 meeting of the Metuchen Borough Council. “Public works removed 73 trees [in 2007] and 31 so far in 2008. I believe there are 50-plus removals in their queue. In the next 10 to 20 years many or even most of our large trees will be gone.” Read the full story
If Metuchen doesn’t act now, it’s possible that most of the borough’s larger trees could disappear within a decade, according to Laurie Hart of the borough’s Shade Tree Commission.
