City of Fayetteville Plants Two Trees for National Arbor Day

3 responses to “City of Fayetteville Plants Two Trees for National Arbor Day”

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   Teresa Thorstad

   April 27, 2026

   I sincerely wish Fayetteville and Fayette County leaders would all care about our trees. The recent land clearing debacles in order to build multiple server AI farms, numerous soccer fields, and ill-considered condominiums, has and will severely reduced our treed lands. We risk losing even more with the trees gone: we will have larger industrial spaces crowded with less than pleasing views, less great air, nature, and changing weather patterns. More homes in smaller lots and more traffic. Of course the trade-off is more tax money, right? It is so difficult to fight for the trees against all the money that gets made when trees are cleared away.

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      Jeffersonfay

      April 28, 2026

      This! Thank you. It’s ironic to see two trees planted when thousands have been bulldozed and cleared over to make way for data centers and overpriced housing (among other initiatives). Posts like these are comical at this point in context of the irony at play. There is a [now-former] park off Lanier and Jeff Davis (right behind the Flash Foods gas station – Harp was part of its former naming for the park) – I say former because after 12 years of visiting this park everyday with my pups, out of nowhere Private Property/No Trespassing signs were planted, the bench and trash bin removed and a notice announcing a meeting to decide on the future was posted. For 12 years I’ve seen bird nests and babies learning to fly out of them in the morning hours, hawks and their families perched, barred owls in the trees, sunrises and sunsets on the bench, and now to see that it will likely be cleared out for commercial use. One tree in particular in this space is of age in the hundreds! Older than the councilmembers deciding the fate of this land. It saddens me to know that greed will force this beautiful space into something nobody asked for. Anyway, thanks for posting your comment. The more comments and the louder we are, maybe they will start to listen. 🙂

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         Benjamin Ferencz

         April 29, 2026

         Let’s not forget that Republicans absolutely gutted the US Forest Service, and it’s because they do not care about the environment.

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