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seconds. They make a lot of
noise and tend to fall slowly. But
even though they are loud, King
said, it was lucky it fell at night
because there’s always the possi
bility of panic if a lot of people
are around.
About three years ago, the Uni
versity started looking more care
fully at potential problem trees
and took out 10 they thought
were a serious risk.
“The campus was barren when
the University started [in 1876],
and some of the trees on campus
today are in excess of 100 years
old,” King said.
Trees are living organisms, he
said. They live and die, and the
University is now experiencing
some of the drawbacks of having
old trees.
Facilities Services always re
places the trees it cuts down after
reexamining the area and decid
ing if another tree would survive
in its place, King said.
“Sometimes we replace one
tree with two,” he said. “We al
ways want new trees growing so
the population has a good range
of ages.”
In the city of Eugene, Johnny
Medlin, the maintenance support
services manager, said it is typi
cal to have problems with trees,
but he said this year is the worst
wind damage the city has seen in
a number of years.
Trees mainly fell on streets,
causing six street closures and
damaging a large part of Hen
dricks Park, Medlin said.
He said the city has an emer
gency command center that has
two-way radio capability that
helps the city’s employees mobi
lize and act quickly.
“We anticipated the storm and
had people to man that,” he said.
“It’s common to call crews in for
overtime.”
Medlin said it is still too early
for a cost estimate, but the most
significant damage was at Hen
dricks Park, where at least 20
trees fell and a picnic shelter was
ruined.
Concerning preventive mea
sures, Medlin said the city usual
ly doesn’t respond until it gets a
call about a problem, but it does
periodically check for problem
trees.
“We have staff almost full time
to do condition assessment and
hazard assessment,” he said.
“But there’s not much opportuni
ty to do a prediction more than a
few hours ahead of time.”
The trees hardest hit in last
week’s wind storm were ever
greens, because they have a large
canopy-like structure that creates
a wind sail, he said. A big prob
lem is that when weather fronts
come in, wind is often a part of
them, he said.
“With rain, wind and ice, it is
not uncommon that they all go
together,” he said.
Even though the city trees
were hit harder than those on
campus, University Arborist
John Anthony said, the Universi
ty is a tough place for trees.
“Trees have a life span that is
sometimes compromised by the
conditions,” he said. “On cam
pus, there are injuries to trees
that would not be done in the
wild."
Anthony said trenching for
sewers, laying concrete and dig
ging for irrigation can often cause
problems for trees. In these situa
tions, trees go into decline soon
er than normal, he said.
These environmental stresses,
old age and an event like a wind
storm all contribute to tree prob
lems on campus, he said.
Felicity Ayles covers city develop
ment and the West University
neighborhood for the Emerald. She
can be reached via e-mail at
fizzer@gladstone. uoregon edu.
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