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• <br /> • <br /> ' //30 6 1Y <br /> ..+ z � - nrw`t"'}-•: ; � i , —. r .t! <br /> .,.., t: r-- l ✓ . r <. z M c x - • <br /> • Y ' ss..n rr ! , r J 7 � _. , F Z \ i rw -c.-' �.,. - � p� • <br /> ' -:‘,..,-.7-:;;.•--"..--e-'1.".;,- - - , " = t { , j <br /> •'''' / / Y K .. <br /> �r m ` a '' n { . <br /> F -".� ', tr. -KAY ::""2-. '� �. 4- I • <br /> - <br /> ,' <br /> �` J _ /U j <br /> • <br /> l ri <br /> ai <br /> r, ,� <br /> -'" - 'tip k- <br /> _ <br /> a 1 a <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. <br /> G • <br /> es r® s _r® in g trees <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 will 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 p up boughs from the <br /> cut the trees into sections and removed the cedars for free on the Washington Street <br /> side of the Washington Jefferson overpass, <br /> By ERIC MORTENSON chunks. <br /> The Register Guard City Forester Jan Staszewski said all 16 Staszewski said. A number of people in <br /> of the cedars in the park block have the quired about obtaining boughs to make 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 t he trees' inner core. Salvageable wood from the 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 /> Office workers gathered at windows of Staszewski said, and all of them probably tural products for the city and the mill, <br /> adjacent buildings and pedestrians paused will be taken out over the next 15 to 20 Staszewski said. <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 5 <br />