Letters to the Editor
Friends of Animals President: ‘Trees are the Planet’s Lungs’ With Multiple Benefits for the Environment
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To the editor:
I’m unnerved when I hear that morbid sound of trees being dismembered, limb by limb until they’re pulverized into saw dust. It’s a racket outside my office window in Darien this morning. In the backyard of a home that abuts our parking lot, I can see a red band tied around the trunk of the huge tree, which a tree cutter in a cherry picker kills, branch by branch, without ceremony. I don’t know why people so easily kill trees, but it’s done with reckless abandon, and watching each limb cut and remain suspended in the air for a while incenses me. Last weekend, I heard the same jarring, tree-killing sound of a chainsaw in a neighbor’s yard on McKinley Street in Rowayton, and the weekend earlier, it interrupted a visit to a friend’s home in Hilton Head, South Carolina.