Four 50+ year old Honey Locust trees were removed last week by the village
An OPINION by Amanda Oglesbee, Wellsville, photos by Melanie Hunt
The loss of the Locust trees on Main Street is devastating to me. That area was the most beautiful part of our Wellsville downtown and in one morning it was robbed of it’s charm. Some people don’t see this, I understand, but many citizens of our village do.
No amount of new concrete that will bring back what those trees gave us, such as; the dappled shade on a hot day, the sound of the breeze gently rustling the leaves, the way the tall column- like trunks made it a pleasure to move through the spaces they defined and how nature softens our hard and angular buildings. To have tables out under the trees in front of the Beef Haus gave our town a little flavor of resorts and great cities all over the world. Some newly built towns and cities pay huge amounts of money to bring in mature trees like those, just so they can have what we have now lost.
Read our reporting on the unplanned tree removal:
