Tree Meeting

I spent a couple of hours in the park at the "Save the Trees" meeting. I'm not sure how many signatures were collected, by while I was there, TV crews from KEYE and KVUE shoot some footage and did interviews. We missed the 10 o'clock news, so I don't know how well it was covered. We did see one of those "News Live" vans packing up as we got home around 10:15pm.

In the park, I learned that the big towers are owned by Austin Energy and the smaller ones (which had been there since the '30s) by LCRA. LCRA is planning the current work in our park, but it's been Austin Energy who did the heavy duty clearing in Wallnut Creek park -- and apparently they wouldn't mind doing the same thing in all of their ROWs. It's kind of ironic, considering that they sponsor the tree planting program that strives to add shade trees to the city to lower summer temperatures.