Sample Letters to oppose total tree removal petition
Sample Letters to oppose total tree removal petition
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Dear Supervisor Mueller, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and CA Coastal Commission,
I am writing to you to let you know I oppose the recent petition entitled “Remove Eucalyptus Trees from the Unincorporated Coastside” which advocates cutting down of ALL eucalyptus trees in San Mateo County’s Coastal areas. As you know most of the tree canopy is composed of eucalyptus trees in our area.
I moved here due to the natural beauty, and am also concerned about wildfire safety, but the proposed solution is too extreme and too expensive. There are less extreme solutions to making our town more climate resilient and safer. Protecting the cooling marine layer, home hardening, and cutting necessary firebreaks, are more cost effective, focused, and environmentally reasonable alternatives. The wildlife we enjoy and rely on for a balance in nature will not survive the habitat destruction that this forest decimation proposed in the petition.
I also have concerns about the resulting flooding, erosion, and resulting financial mitigation costs, that cutting so many trees will cause to resident’s homes.
Please oppose the upcoming petition.
Sincerely,
Ray Mueller
Jackie Speier
Noelia Corzo
Lisa Gauthier
David Canepa
CA Coastal Commission
NorthCentralCoast@coastal.ca.gov