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LenSatic
May 05, 2016Explorer
dahkota wrote:
The tree is dying (the average lifespan of a cottonwood is 100 years). It is already dropping large limbs. The BLM could continue to cut back the limbs of the tree, but they can't save it.
You are so right! Problem is that they have never trimmed it. That’s their “hands-off” management style. The plan to cut it down is based on money: $10,000 to trim it back or $20,000 to cut it down. By the way, BLM won’t allow power equipment much of the year due to the birds that nest here seasonally.
Had it been owned by the state, it wouldn't be a problem because they probably would have cut it down years ago.
Had it been owned by Cochise County, they would probably had local tree services volunteer to trim it occasionally in exchange for free advertising.
From the Arizona Land Department:
"In the 88 years since statehood, the State has disposed of, or exchanged, about 1,628,079 acres of Trust lands. A total of 9,228,787 acres of Trust Land remains. Almost all of the lands are under one or more leases for natural resource uses and commercial development purposes. About 87 percent of the Trust lands are in the Common School Trust and approximately 90 percent of the Trust revenues go to that Trust."
That is pretty old information given that AZ is 104 years old. When people started moving here in the ‘50s they needed somewhere to live. Plus the 3 Interstates used up quite a bit of land. Nine-plus million acres is still a lot of land and we buy an annual pass to use it.
LS
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