The Thornton Creek Alliance is inviting the community to its meeting tonight that will focus on the restoration at Maple Leaf’s Beaver Pond Natural Area, volunteering, crime/safety and any other topics you would like to discuss.
Last month, the branches of nearly 50 trees were illegally pruned in Beaver Pond Natural Area, raising both ire and support from the community.
A variety of city leaders will be in attendance, including:
- Seattle City Councilwoman Sally Bagshaw, chair of the Parks Committee
- Terrie Johnston, Seattle Police Department community liaison
- Joanna Nelson de Flores, Green Seattle Partnership project manager
- Chris Saleeba, with Seattle Greenways
The open disucssion is from 7-9 p.m. at Meadowbrook Community Center, 10517 35th Ave. N.E.
He lives in the house right next to the big spruce tree.
Good thing he doesn’t have a trimmer big enough for that one.
@ nic:
Deep breath my friend. I am not saying crimes should not be investigated. Please don’t blow things out of proportion and try to claim that I don’t think any crimes should be investigated. That is pure drama talk based on ones perceived clairvoyance.
We have limited resources, so I would fully support police investigators spending their time solving the auto and home break ins that keep occurring all over the neighborhood instead of trying to find the person that trimmed the trees. As someone posted on this site before, they came home to burglars in their house and one with a knife. That is a crime that warrants far far more attention than tree trimming. I believe my family’s safety is at a greater risk from burglars than tree trimmers. So I did not mean that crimes should not be investigated, I just believe, in my humble anonymous opinion, that some crimes warrant more attention from investigators than others. Buy hey, I guess I am weird.
@AnonymousBob: are you serious??? by your ‘whats done is done’ logic no crimes should ever be investigated or prosecuted, no one should ever be held accountable for their actions because they happened in the past??
have you even been in this area before and after? this went way beyond trimming a few branches, the whole area has been transformed by a moron who thinks he has the right to do whatever he wants to public property MapleLeafBob (don’t you love the anonymity of your moniker that allows you to make insulting comments on this forum?) i am happy to have the police and prosecutors decide if this was a property crime or not. this was vandalism and should be treated that way. it will take many years for the trees to recover and for the sense of seclusion to be restored. perhaps this would not be the equivalent of demolishing the community center, but it is like adding a few doorways and window openings using a jackhammer because you don’t quite like the architecture. that is a public area, not someone’s private garden. i hope that mr. bongo is willing to report this to the police.
@nic rossouw
Ha Ha Ha. Are you really trying to compare cutting a few branches to demolishing a building? You can’t be serious??!
How does cutting some branches on a few trees seriously harm your ability to enjoy the natural area? I agree the person should have used different tactics and not sneak around at night to trim the trees, but get real with the dooms day description of what happened.
so by the logic of this vigilante (and those who now want to shrug their shoulders), it would be OK to demolish the community center if he saw someone smoking pot behind that building? this is vandalism and destruction of the commons. if kids were smoking pot in that area, they never did me any harm. this jerk has seriously harmed mine and many people’s enjoyment of one of the few natural areas in the neighborhood – not to mention the destruction of habitat for wildlife. he is a criminal and should be charged with his crimes.
If he was seen doing it I would have told him to knock it off or I would call the authorities. Geez, ditto to that could have been me smoking pot 40 years ago. Lighten up.
Interesting that it wasn’t done because the home break ins like everyone claimed, but because of kids smoking pot. I totally would have been one of those kids 25 years ago.
@MapleLeafBob
Agreed.
So who was the second shooter on the grassy knoll? lol
I love this natural area. It’s such a rare treat to have something like this walking distance from my house in the ‘burbs. It’s quiet and thoughtful. Those large trees are breathtaking!
Who cares at this point???!!! What is done is done. Hopefully it’s spurred enough attention to actually find some realistic solutions that fit both the goals of the surrounding residents and those wanting to maintain/improve the park.
Also, I know who shot JFK, where Jimmy Hoffa is buried, and where in the world Carmen San Diego is. Do you want me to tell you?
I know who did it if you want to know. I saw him doing it and asked him why.
He said it was cause there were kids hiding in the bushes doing drugs.
I told him that they were just smoking pot and wouldn’t bother him.
I know where he lives.