According to the Raleigh News and Observer, Not only will billboard companies be able to cut down many more trees than they could before a new law loosened restrictions, under newly approved rules taking effect in March they won't have to replace them, either.
Environmentalists and others fear thousands of roadside trees that are decades old will be lost as a result. "We don't think the state legislature should give away the public's trees, particularly when the public is not getting anything in return," Molly Diggins, executive director of the state chapter of the Sierra Club, said Tuesday. "This is being done in the name of regulatory reform, but the legislature has gone too far. This is a giveaway to the billboard industry."
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Environmentalists and others fear thousands of roadside trees that are decades old will be lost as a result. "We don't think the state legislature should give away the public's trees, particularly when the public is not getting anything in return," Molly Diggins, executive director of the state chapter of the Sierra Club, said Tuesday. "This is being done in the name of regulatory reform, but the legislature has gone too far. This is a giveaway to the billboard industry."
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This is shameful. To allow some freaking company to destroy our natural heritage so they can better assault people's eyeballs with whatever they're trying to sell it typical of the idiots now running amok in Raleigh.
Unprincipled corporate lackeys who care nothing about anything but placating their corporate masters and lining their pockets.
By Dionysis
01/25/2012
Without knowing the specific trees being considered, it seems hard to call them a 'natural heritage'.
While I'm hardly pro cutting down trees, or defending this particular legislation, one should at least recognize the difference between a healthy forest and trees by the side of a highway. The general hysteria around cutting trees often seems to not acknowledge the distinction.
By bill smith
01/26/2012