Then why cut down anything

This press release from parks seems just a tad hypocritical:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 17, 2007
No.166
www.nyc.gov/parks


VOLUNTEERS TO PLANT 10,000 TREES IN PARKS FOR IT’S MY PARK! DAY

DATE: Saturday, October 20, 2007

TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. remarks & photo-op

LOCATION: Kissena Corridor Park
Enter at gate at 56th Avenue and 142nd Street
Flushing, Queens

EVENT & PHOTO-OP: Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, City Parks Foundation Executive Director David Rivel, Partnerships for Parks Director Jason Schwartz and Council Member John C. Liu will join approximately 200 volunteers at Kissena Corridor Park to plant a sassafras tree, one of 3,000 to be planted at the site. This year, It’s My Park! Day volunteers will plant 10,000 trees across the five boroughs to support Mayor Bloomberg’s Million Trees NYC initiative.

DETAILS: Nearly 6,000 volunteers will participate in this semi-annual citywide event to care for and celebrate NYC’s parks. There is one reforestation site in each borough where volunteers will plant a total of 10,000 trees in support of Mayor Bloomberg’s Million Trees NYC initiative to plant and care for one million trees throughout the five boroughs in the next decade. In addition to the primary reforestation site in each borough, volunteers will plant additional trees, perform tree maintenance, clean, rake, mulch, paint and plant bulbs at more than 170 parks citywide.

It’s My Park! Day is a volunteer initiative of Partnerships for Parks, a joint program of Parks and City Parks Foundation.

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Contact: Warner Johnston / Abigail Lootens (212) 360-1311


My best guess is that:

Tiny new trees = Photo op = Good

Old forest = No photo op = Rip it down

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