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The Memory of Trees

The Memory of Trees ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Knopp / THE / September MEMOR1999 Y OF TREES LISA KNOPP Goucher College uring the night of October 26, 1997, 13 inches of wet, heavy snow D snapped tree limbs already weighted with ice and fall foliage. My neighbor said that he couldn’t sleep on the night of this great storm because each snapping branch sounded like a gun being fired. The next morning, the city looked like a war zone. Big limbs had pulled down power lines, making some streets impassable, leaving 150,000 eastern Nebraskans in the dark and cold. Schools and some businesses were closed for more than a week. The more lasting consequence is that the great storm killed approximately 100,000 trees in eastern Nebraska, 6,000 city-owned trees in Lincoln alone. Many more trees were injured. Even the pin oaks lining so many streets in my neighborhood, city trees planted because the wood is strong and resilient to wind and ice damage, succumbed. At the time of the great storm, I was living on the edge of a southeastern national forest, where there was too little cold and snow and not enough prairie for my taste. Even so, I was glad to have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

The Memory of Trees

Knopp, Lisa
Organization & Environment , Volume 12 (3): 7 – Sep 1, 1999
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Knopp / THE / September MEMOR1999 Y OF TREES LISA KNOPP Goucher College uring the night of October 26, 1997, 13 inches of wet, heavy snow D snapped tree limbs already weighted with ice and fall foliage. My neighbor said that he couldn’t sleep on the night of this great storm because each snapping branch sounded like a gun being fired. The next morning, the city looked like a war zone. Big limbs had pulled down power lines, making some streets impassable, leaving 150,000 eastern Nebraskans in the dark and cold. Schools and some businesses were closed for more than a week. The more lasting consequence is that the great storm killed approximately 100,000 trees in eastern Nebraska, 6,000 city-owned trees in Lincoln alone. Many more trees were injured. Even the pin oaks lining so many streets in my neighborhood, city trees planted because the wood is strong and resilient to wind and ice damage, succumbed. At the time of the great storm, I was living on the edge of a southeastern national forest, where there was too little cold and snow and not enough prairie for my taste. Even so, I was glad to have

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Published: Sep 1, 1999

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