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<br /> ANDY NELSON /The Register -Guard
<br /> Jeff Johnson, operating a saw, works with Mark Watson to remove a rotting cedar's stump Tuesday in downtown Eugene.
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<br /> ■ Removal: Crews fell four the severed trees and gently laid them on years old and about as tall_
<br /> the concrete next to the salmon fountain Four 8 -foot cedars w be planted to re
<br /> of 16 diseased i ncense cedars along West Eighth Avenue. place the trees that were cut down Tuesday.
<br /> in downtown Eugene. Crews quickly lopped off the branches, The public can pick up boughs from the
<br /> cut the trees into sections and removed the
<br /> chunks. cedars for free on the Washington Street
<br /> side of the Washington - Jefferson overpass,
<br /> By ERIC MORTENSON City Forester Jan Staszewski said all 16 Staszewski said. A number of people in
<br /> The Register - Guard of the cedars in the park block have the quired about obtaining boughs to m ake holi
<br /> City crews cut down four large incense fungal disease — a brown rot that eventual- day wreaths, he said.
<br /> cedar trees in the West Park Block area ly eats away the trees' inner core. Salvageable wood from ttie trees was
<br /> Tuesday morning, explaining that disease A few more trees will have to be re- trucked to a portable sawmill, where it will
<br /> made the trees unsafe. moved in the next two or three years, be cut into fence boards or other nonstruc
<br /> tural products for the city and the mill,
<br /> Office workers gathered at windows of Staszewski said, and all of them probably Staszewski said.
<br /> adjacent buildings and pedestrians paused will be taken out over the next 15 to 20
<br /> in the rain to watch as an 80 -ton crane lifted years. He estimated the trees are 60 to 100 Turn to TREES, Page 5D
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