Note: We’re recycling a post that was originally published in
April 2010. And we have an update: In October of this year, more than 100
members of West Coast Arborists will return to Fairyland for our third annual
Arbor Camp and Work Day. The bulk of the work will take place Saturday, Oct.
13, when six ailing trees will be removed and undergrowth along our fence line
will be cleared. In conjunction with this work, we’ll be scheduling a variety
of related activities for our guests. Stay tuned!
By C.J. Hirschfield
For more than a decade, three huge
redwood logs languished at the back of Fairyland’s meadow and picnic area. I
have no idea when the tree was felled, but we had tried over the years to have
someone haul the “waste” away and put the wood to good use, but to no avail.
Too expensive.
So it was with a huge amount of joy
that I watched last weekend as professional arborists from all over the great
state of California turned those logs—right in front of the eyes of a thousand
kids—into boards to be transformed by those same kids into hundreds of
birdhouses that they could take back to their homes.
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| Arborist at work. |
