UWC in the News
"'Every native tree or shrub that's cut down is a piece of us that we are losing,' said Chicagoan Petra Blix."
Erika Brekke, Medill Reports
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"There are many other issues that the alderman and community groups wish to address... the cutting down of healthy native trees, the application of herbicides contrary to proposed use, the use of numerous police resources to patrol burn sites, unsupervised volunteers and stewards who have no liability and are not government employees, the lack of notification to communities, the lack of implementation of buffer zones, and inadequate safety percautions."
Our Village
"'They seem to think this is one big laboratory said [Bunker Hill resident Deb] Domick,'... Domick believes that with the struggling economy there is no reason they should be spending money on turning forests into prairie."
Tracy Yoshide Gruen, The Bugle
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"This spring, aldermen started hearing from their constituents, among them Ald. Brian Doherty, whose 41st Ward is to the west of LaBagh Woods. He took a look and didn't like what he saw. Not just saplings but mature trees had been cut down, he said. To him it seemed someone wanted to get the job done before political winds turned again."
Ron Grossman, The Chicago Tribune
"[Alderman Brian Doherty] said that he believes the burns are being conducted too close to homes. 'My concern is burning near urban, residential areas,' Doherty said... He said that in some instances the burns have been poorly supervised and and that volunteers who conducted a burn have left the area while cinders were still smoldering."
Brian Nadig, Nadig Reporter & Journal
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"'The restoration movement has flourished by claiming the mantle of environmentalism while they deforest our woods, poison our water table and release smoke particulates into the air, so we appeal to Chicago's green community as well as to scrutinize this greenwashing more closely and denounce practices that are inconsistent with Chicago's burgeoning global environmental reputation,' Birman said in a statement."
Cyryl Jakubowski, Nadig Newspapers
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