What a great effort from this community in saving this old Oak tree from advancing highway needs.....
The team work with the Caterpillars in the video is great to watch.
What an amazing video Paul, never have seen anything like that before, it makes me happy to think there are people out there that really care. Glad you told me about this. Take care. John
Posted by Wayne Jones on November 5, 2012 at 10:35 AM
We can only hope and pray that people like that can inspire the rest of our population to take action to save entire forests, ecosystems, and the future of our own species! That will be MUCH more complicated than moving a tree. We'll have to move the world, one government at a time.
Thank you all for your comments here. I felt quite inspired by the entire idea and the overall planning & project outcome. As all have mentioned, we can only hope people of the future have as much foresight for the world-wide Eco-system as this one small community had for their one symbolic Oak tree. A true case where some very large earth-movers came to the rescue instead of just widening the roadbed.
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5 repliesThe team work with the Caterpillars in the video is great to watch.
Oak Tree Move
Thanks for this!
Sandy
Thanks for sharing Paul.
Don
What is most amazing is the collective will of the people to get this done, AND to build their "WaterSmart Park" to educate people how to conserve water while using native plants for landscaping. (See the last part of this article: http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/11/100-year-old-oak-tree-saved-loving-town?cmpid=tpenviro-eml-2012-10-25-fragile)
We can only hope and pray that people like that can inspire the rest of our population to take action to save entire forests, ecosystems, and the future of our own species! That will be MUCH more complicated than moving a tree. We'll have to move the world, one government at a time.