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Say Goodbye to These Ohlone Greenway Trees

Dozens of trees on the Ohlone Greenway are scheduled to be axed this week to make way for seismic retrofitting of BART pillars.

With on the BART pillars, several dozen trees on the are scheduled to be cut down beginning Wednesday. 

The trees to be axed include many, but not all, of the small crabapples that are lined up directly under the tracks (about 55 trees), according to Tony Wolcott, Albany’s urban forester. 

Also being removed are three eucalyptus sideroxylon, or ironbark, and several Australian paperbarks (also known as cajeput trees or melaleucas) that are bumping up against the underside of the BART tracks.

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“Some trees were not planted in the right spot,” said Wolcott.

Trees are being cut only in the : Brighton to Portland avenues and Solano Avenue to Dartmouth Street. Trees on the greenway from Solano to Portland avenues will not be removed until work begins there next year.

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Often, when trees are cut down in Albany, the mulch is available to residents, but in this case it will be used to pad the ground on the work site and reduce the impact of the heavy machinery.  

Once work on the BART pillars is completed new trees will be planted along the Ohlone Greenway.

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