Started at San Felipe and walked north along the 610 Frontage Road from San Felipe. Took a right at Wood and walked through Memorial Park.
The brown are the dead lolley pines. Very sad!
Sadly some stumps from the dead trees that have had to be taken down.
Ending at Westcott and Memorial
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I'm of the impression that Memorial Park has lost the majority of its pines from last year's drought, many of which have been there for generations. Looks like many more will need to be cut.
Thank God we've been getting rain the last few months. I play tennis 3 times a week at Memorial Park and my heart breaks each time I visit as more and more of the dead trees are cleared away.
The tennis center is further North than your walking route, closer to Interstate 10. There used to be a nice buffer of trees between the freeway and the park, but I'd estimate 90% of that cluster was lost. The freeway noise is brutal now on the courts and I cannot imagine how much worse the air quality has become with literally THOUSANDS of old growth trees gone from the landscape.
Luckily, there's a big-time push going on to reforest the park. I've already donated.
Thank God we've been getting rain the last few months. I play tennis 3 times a week at Memorial Park and my heart breaks each time I visit as more and more of the dead trees are cleared away.
The tennis center is further North than your walking route, closer to Interstate 10. There used to be a nice buffer of trees between the freeway and the park, but I'd estimate 90% of that cluster was lost. The freeway noise is brutal now on the courts and I cannot imagine how much worse the air quality has become with literally THOUSANDS of old growth trees gone from the landscape.
Luckily, there's a big-time push going on to reforest the park. I've already donated.
Yeah, you can buy a tree for the park and pick out which species it will be. Google Maps has a birds eye view that gives you a sense of the scope that we are talking about.
These pictures aren't from the fall. Those brown trees are pine trees.
Nature can be really cruel. That really is hearbreaking to see what has happened to Memorial Park. When I was a kid we would go hiking deep in the woods in the park and it was like being far removed from the city. It will not be the same for many, many years.
From what I could tell when driving around at Christmas, the many pine forested neighborhoods in the city did relatively well (notice I said "relatively"). I guess because people watered their trees during the drought. I don't know if Memorial Park could have been saved unless there had been a massive flyover with water drops. I don't think even the arborists realized it was going to be so bad until it was too late.
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