The landmark tree on this Hudson Valley property had been nominated by a neighbor as a candidate for the Big Tree Register, maintained by the department to "recognize trees of record size and promote an interest in the trees we come in contact with every day".
Replacing such a landmark tree — one that had, for 144 years, enthralled and shaded countless Angelenos — offers the city the chance to consider what our urban forest should feature in the next century.
Mitch Epstein's photographs of New York's landmark trees are, as Michael Kimmelman tells us, a kind of "heaven".
Taking grudge-holding to new depths, Updyke/Al claimed on the call to have infected the landmark trees with a deadly dose of the herbicide Spike 80DF in retribution for Auburn devotees' supposed toilet-papering of the oak trees in celebration of Bryant's death 28 years ago.
He said: "When you talk about the heritage of trees and what we have gained from the planting done by the Victorians, my biggest concern is that as those big, landmark trees had to removed en mass, very quickly, we would suddenly be left with a very different urban landscape - one that would be very problematic to replant.
For years, Bob Perry's landmark "Trees and Shrubs for Dry California Landscapes" has been the major--and for some time, only--book devoted to drought-tolerant plants for our area.
Radio producer Julian May was struck by the musicality of these, the undulations of hills are melodic, the spacing of landmarks - trees, spires - rhythmic.
Sometimes he even takes the photographs to his studio in Paris--a city with its own vast array of landmarks, trees and gardens--and quietly toils on yet another image of the cypress.
Car Crash Prevention -- Imagine if the only defensive driving classes that were given to younger or other at-risk drivers only taught them how to deal with a wreck once it was occurring - including how to steer to avoid people, landmarks, trees, and ravines.
There are numerous landmarks, but tree trunks and bushes are all quite similar, and they change with time, sometimes rapidly because of storms.
The deed transfers ownership of land delineated largely by natural landmarks, like trees and rivers, from the sachem, or chief, of the Setauket, Warawakmy, to six white settlers.
