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TREES Continued from Page 1C <br /> .',''''' <br /> Given the often-intense debate tension Service office, to confirm his <br /> over care and placement of the diagnosis that the trees should be re- <br /> city's trees, Staszewski said, he care- moved. <br /> fully followed a detailed public noti- The forester speculated that rot <br /> fication process. set in when the tops of the cedars <br /> After rot was confirmed in the were knocked down in the 1962 Co- <br /> trees this fall, the forester said he lumbus Day Storm, were broken by <br /> informed Qty Councllman Kevin ice or snow, or were cut by mainte- <br /> Hornbuckle, whose ward the trees nance people seeking to remove <br /> are in, the rest of the:! p`inci.1, the damaged limbs. <br /> county, other tree experts, d uk, The city followed an evaluation <br /> town businesses and the Saturday- process that rates tree health on a <br /> Market, which is normally held In scale of one to nine, with nine being <br /> the park blocks but has moved to the the worst. The process includes bor- <br /> fairgrounds for the holiday season. ing into the tree to determine the <br /> Staszewski said he also posted no- amount of sound wood remaining, <br /> tices on the trees and set up a booth plus an evaluation of the damage <br /> at Saturday Market to explain the that might be caused if the tree fell. <br /> need to remove them. He also asked Two of the cedars were rated as <br /> Mari Kramer, acting forestry agent eights and the other two were nines, <br /> for the Oregon State University Ex- Staszewski said. <br /> i <br /> r' <br />