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Boats n Hose 
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Baton Rouge
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| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 8:45 am to tigerinthebueche)
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only trouble with this idea is that it takes, about 20-30 years for the young trees to even begin to resemble the 90 YO trees removed. I like the idea of planting more, but these aren't Pine trees that grow quickly. So you can't really replace the esxisting trees by planting new ones.
But this way, if you absolutely have to cut down old trees, you can plan a good place to plant new ones that won't need cutting down later and in another couple generations hou'll have some really beautiful oaks there again. It's better than nothing if you had to cut em
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brgfather129 
Texas Tech Fan
Austin, TX
Member since Jul 2009
4145 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 1:24 pm to Fishwater)
Trees are gay
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RealityTiger
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jan 2010
8969 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 2:21 pm to brgfather129)
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Trees are gay
This sounds like a song title by the band Anal Cunt. 
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bgtiger 
USA Fan
Prairieville
Member since Dec 2004
4839 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 3:35 pm to LSUBoo)
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Simple solution though, if you have to cut down three live oaks, plant 12 more along the street in their place. Or however many necessary depending on the proper spacing for their root systems.
This, and I wonder how many of you whiny kids actively get involved in any arboreal programs and plant trees in your area of town. Yeah, didn't think so.
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FrozenMonkey
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2011
1123 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 4:09 pm to Fishwater)
I literally pass by this area daily and I never give the trees a second thought.
I'd be willing to bet money that the people who are up in arms about this, don't routinely stop and enjoy the trees anyway.
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VetteGuy
LSU Fan
Mandeville
Member since Feb 2008
5540 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 4:23 pm to Martini)
Agree.
People that love trees should live in a damn forest.
Get a job, buy a house, build a building and then tell me how much you love 'em.
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LSUandAU
Texas
Member since Apr 2009
2727 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 4:28 pm to VetteGuy)
Trees give...people take!
BR was a shithole, is a shithole and With or without trees, will be a shithole. I owned a house in lake Sherwood, then people at the Super Fresh started getting robbed and mugged in the parking lot...several incidents where thugs attacked men and women I knew...we moved out...that area now part of the shithole.
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tketaco
LSU Fan
LaffyBaffy
Member since Jan 2010
6762 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 4:47 pm to Fishwater)
Should of started with clearing out the ghettos. Profit.
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HempHead 
Alabama Fan
Appalachia
Member since Mar 2011
10149 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/5/12 at 7:59 pm to Cosmo)
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You people complain about traffic but when new roads are built you complain too?
May have already been said by this point in the thread, but building new roads does not reasonably reduce congestion over a period of time.
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foshizzle
LSU Fan
Member since Mar 2008
25462 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/7/12 at 11:40 am to LSUDAN1)
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Wasn't Baton Rouge just recently named the most treed city in America
Yes, it was.
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TheRammerJammer
ORLANDO, FL
Member since Sep 2011
1201 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/7/12 at 6:30 pm to Fishwater)
Perhaps you guys could donate the 100 year old Oak trees to Auburn?
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Pedro 
LA-Monroe Fan
the one and only
Member since Jul 2008
16257 posts
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| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/8/12 at 8:12 pm to Kafka)
You people complain about people complaining but when something like this happens you think it's OK?
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Tigah in the ATL
LSU Fan
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2005
21020 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:27 pm to Fishwater)
Is there somehow a shortage of trees now?
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primemover225
USA Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2010
6359 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:44 pm to LSUAlum2001)
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Didn't some guy do a study that says Baton Rouge is the most green city (tree-wise) in the US?
YES.
That was going to be my post, but I couldn't link it.
/thread
To their defense, they hate to see trees they've seen their whole lives being cut down, but they have to let go. This city is already expanding faster that it can, without having to worry about cutting down trees before widening highways and building roads.
This post was edited on 10/9 at 11:48 pm
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HubbaBubba
USA Fan
Bloemee, TX
Member since Oct 2010
5062 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 6:13 am to primemover225)
someone should turn in the contractor that cut that tree down for hiring an illegal alien and not following OSHA rules: no gloves, no safety glasses.
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Martini
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2005
24188 posts
| re: Baton Rouge cutting down 100 year old Live Oaks.... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 6:37 am to LSUandAU)
Give me a break. I would be willing to bet as soon as you moved in wherever you are now your new neighbors said this place is turning into a shithole. I hope you moved to Beaumont.
Link the thug incidents.
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