As temperatures climb and Redding faces longer, hotter summers, preserving urban shade should be a top priority. But on May 20, the Redding City Council voted unanimously against implementing mitigation fees for removing native oaks during development—choosing not to hold developers accountable for canopy loss. This vote wasn’t just procedural. It was a clear message:…
Photos by David Ledger – above photo: sidewalk buckling from tree roots on Liberty Street Recently, all the street trees on a long block of Liberty Street next to Trinity Street in Redding were cut down, however, it was for the right reasons. All the trees were Liquidambar, a tree with very shallow roots. The…
By David Ledger Several months ago Robert Sid posted on his Facebook page that trees are dying in the Mt. Shasta Mall parking lot. I drove over to the Mall to check it out and found out he was right. Trees are dead, dying, and highly stressed. There are 14 completely dead trees, 18 almost…
SEA received a complaint that the City of Redding was going to cut down seven shade trees at 10th and West Streets to make way for new sidewalks. We contacted Public Works and they looked at the corner again with an engineer and decided they could work around some of the large sycamore trees they…
City of Redding Street Tree List Approved. SEA Tree Committee provided input. Using substantial input from SEA’s Tree Committee the City of Redding has updated its Street Tree List. The Tree Committee met a number of times before coming up with a list of trees we recommended to be added to the tree list and…