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<br /> —MIKE McCARTHY,ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST
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<br /> BY JOE MOSLEM °
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<br /> much different from tree sitting. i�* �� '"'4 xq ,",4,-,.,„!,,,,:• ;, Y The plan
<br /> The bottom line is that he's trying �+ ' • =w y`r , w services ani
<br /> to save a tree — although this time ',o ` 4 "� "' • " were cut WI
<br /> he's digging one up to move it,rather ;4 • `' r t ,•, ° .. ' proposed I
<br /> than sitting among the boughs in de `'MV.;!;:7;,,:;,„-,17 +A' 1:--4-__,.,,•` �
<br /> AFL; p in January.
<br /> fiance of those who might otherwise 4 ' W 4 ;i •; `,, ,y The plat
<br /> cut it down. ' _ - ,e which is exp
<br /> "If it wasn't a living thing and we -�� 3. � ,` The mo
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<br /> didn't care so much about it, we • projected in
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<br /> wouldn't be doing this," McCarthy p-` �� ;� gon has plu
<br /> said Monday; waist deep in a circu lion,
<br /> lar trench he and a few friends dug t r•'°"`"� .. And accordd
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<br /> around a 3-year-old, 15 foot high �, ; ,
<br /> �"'" makers slide
<br /> Western red cedar. �E..' - ,+ -°�
<br /> Their hope is to find a heavy :,, e could the next
<br /> equipment operator willing to work ,• bye be x1
<br /> '` for free or at a reduced cost to help weeks June befo c, The stal
<br /> .: them move the young tree and its a
<br /> massive root ball from the Whiteaker balanced 1
<br /> neighborhood to the yard of a friend t, , • "- $ and in five
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<br /> Eugene.
<br /> 20 blocks away in west f "'
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<br /> The tree is a far cry from the ma-
<br /> tore giants that McCarthy has built billion
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<br /> his tree-sitting reputation saving, ``,, Senate key
<br /> but with a trunk that measures 8 to mainly by
<br /> 10 inches in diameter it's also much against the
<br /> larger than a typical candidate for national tc
<br /> transplanting. ing $112 n
<br /> Jeff Anderson, an urban foresterreserve fur
<br /> for the Eugene Department of Parks Lawma
<br /> and Open Space, said very few local and pieces
<br /> trees with trunks larger than 2 inch- r. a million
<br /> es in diameter are moved. cco
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<br /> "It's unusual to find that size of Tacopc
<br /> tree being transplanted in this area," • sere fun(
<br /> said Anderson,who had a look at the other rend
<br /> project last week. "As a culture, we needed, v
<br /> have lost the skill set for handling for the th
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<br /> this kind of thing by hand, the way
<br /> Mike is doing it.He's looking at pos- can Gov.sup Ti
<br /> sibly 7,000 pounds of root ball, o
<br /> said when
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<br /> The cedar,which sits in front of a unique sii
<br /> L house on Blair Boulevard just north CHRIS PiErscx The Register-Guard W e ha
<br /> of the Van Buren Street intersection,
<br /> was planted as a memorial to Mike McCarthy admires the cedar he hopes to save by moving it from Plea
<br /> Please turn to TREE,Page D4 the Whiteaker neighborhood to a.yard in west Eugene.
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