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Preventing accidents

To the Editor:

Winter is back in full swing with significant snow and ice for all of us to battle.

That means slippery surfaces, which can be dangerous and costly for homeowners, as well as for their visitors including their letter carrier. By clearing a path when the snow arrives, accidents can be prevented.

We need our customers help. Letter carriers have hurt their knees or backs, or even suffered broken bones from falls on slippery surfaces.

Letter carriers are instructed to use good judgment when attempting to deliver to addresses where ice and snow are not cleared. They are not allowed to dismount to make curb deliveries when the approach to the mailbox is hazardous because of snow or ice.

No one wants to inconvenience a customer. But we have to take every possible step to ensure the safety of our employees.

Some tips:

Customers are asked to clear enough snow from curbside boxes at least six feet on both sides of the mailbox so the carrier may approach and leave without backing up his or her vehicle.

Walkways need to be cleared so as to allow enough traction to avoid slips, trips and falls.

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Letters to the Editor for Dec. 13, 2013

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) -

Many roads are still covered and crews continue to work to dig out from the ice, sleet, and snow that pounded the Heartland Thursday and Friday.

However, the US 45 Ohio River Brookport Bridge between Paducah and Brookport will be reopened to traffic around 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9 according to Ky. state transportation officials.

KYTC says engineers had been evaluating the bridge a number of times per day as temperatures inched above freezing to allow ice to melt from the bridge structure.

The bridge had been closed from just before 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6.

Ice and snow coated the bridge forcing the closure.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reports a snow plow overturned on KY 128 in Caldwell County near the intersection with Travis Road.

They say the truck went off a 10 ft. embankment during plowing and salting operations. The driver was not injured.

According to KYTC, the road is open now.

Corporal Clark Parrott with the Missouri State Highway Patrol says troopers are working a lot of slide offs. He urges people to stay home unless it's an emergency to allow road crews to do their job.

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Brookport Bridge re-opens, warming centers available

Customer Reviews Marietta GA Tree Removal Service
Mrs. Inge, a Georgia homeowner describes her experience with Trees of Georgia a tree removal service in Marietta, GA. Mrs. Inge needed to remove an old pine ...

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ARBORIST TREE SERVICES - TREE REMOVAL CHRISTCHURCH, ArborPro Canterbury
This is a small insight into....Arborpro Canterbury Ltd. What we do and who we are....Most of the video is a pine tree removal by our qualified arborists bec...

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Dangerous tree removal by 40t crane bandit,Rayco,vermeer,
This tree was removed to protect a sewerage treatment plant that it previously damaged, The tree was removed using a 40 ton crane and processed with our band...

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Dangerous tree removal by 40t crane bandit,Rayco,vermeer, - Video

Ford 8n tree removal - part 1 - how to
this video covers how to chain the tree to your tractor and what happens if you don #39;t get the knot around the tree secured well.

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Ford 8n tree removal - part 2 - pulling the stump out
Here is the second half of the video on how to pull tree stumps with a ford tractor. This is so much fun.

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Kansas City, MO - infoZine - This past summer, as part of the KC Parks Forestry Divisions Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Management Program, hundreds of Ash trees around the city were deliberately damaged in an attempt to attract the Emerald Ash Borer. Known as trap trees, the 700 trees in Platte, Clay and Jackson Counties were marked with tags explaining that the tree had been purposely stressed and that it would be removed at a later date, examined for signs of EAB beetles or larvae and properly disposed.

Only certain Ash trees within the City right-of-way or located on City property were stressed. Portions in each county were stressed so that the beetles spread and population growth can continue to be monitored over the next five years. Each spring, additional Ash trees that have not been treated will be stressed to create new trap trees and then removed in the winter months to be inspected.

However, in Platte County the beetle population has reached such a high level that all the City Ash trees, not being treated and or used as trap trees, will be removed.

The main purpose of trap trees is to monitor the spread of EAB and the population density. As the population builds in an area thousands of Ash trees begin dying at the same time.

Trap trees were created by stripping away portions of the bark around the trunk of the tree. This sends stress signals out that attract the beetles. It is believed to be an effective way of determining if the EAB is in the area when population densities are still very low. A door hanger was placed at each residence where a tree was stressed and a small sign was posted on the street side of the tree trunk to educate citizens on the purpose of the trap tree, and warn them not to remove any parts of the tree so as not to potentially be spreading EAB. Since these trees are not treated they must be removed before the adult beetles emerge in May 2014 and spread the infestation. Each tree that is removed will be inspected for signs of EAB infestation, properly disposed of, and a replacement tree planted in a suitable location.

Residents of City of Kansas City, Missouri are reminded that if you have Ash tree debris from private property the City has provided disposal sites that will properly dispose of it so as not to spread EAB,

Related KC Ash Borer Link Emerald Ash Borer Info

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Greater Kansas City EAB Ash Trap Tree Removal Begins

BECKET -- Two towns and a tree-removal company are headed to trial in a legal battle over cleanup costs from a December 2008 ice storm.

Becket and Blandford have filed counterclaim suits in Superior Court against BRD LLC, the tree-removal company that sued them individually in 2012, alleging they weren't paid or paid in full for clearing up tree debris created by the storm.

The trial between Becket and BRD is scheduled for March 2, 2015, according to records from Hampden Superior Court in which the case will be heard. No trial date has yet been set for Blandford's case, which will be heard by the same jury after a judge approved the consolidation of the cases in February.

Last August, BRD LLC of Suffield, Conn., sued Becket, claiming the town had only paid $263,700 of its $875,218 bill for clearing and removing debris like limbs and trees. BRD also sued Blandford for not paying its cleanup bill.

Both towns hired BRD to perform debris removal in the spring of 2009. The costs were to be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but only for work directly related to the storm cleanup and documented to FEMA specifications.

In its suit, BRD claims the company performed the work, but was not paid or paid in full.

In lawsuits of their own, the towns claim that BRD not only didn't perform and document the work to the specifications required, but also instructed the towns not to pay the bills because the company hadn't properly documented its work.

The towns allege BRD worked beyond the parameters of its work order (such as cutting down healthy trees and ones on private property), didn't properly document the work it did, and sold town-owned trees to Moosehead Harvesting Inc., which is owned by the wife of BRD principal Robert Reed and the mother of the company's other principal, Robert Reed Jr., for profit.

The towns also allege its trees have either been sold or could be personally used by one or more of BRD's employees.

Despite BRD's objections, Judge Richard Carey in February 2013, citing "virtually identical facts and involve similar legal claims" approved a request to consolidate the cases being overseen by Kopelman & Paige, which is representing both towns.

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by Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Weekly

The removal of 543 trees from the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course could offer an opportunity to restore a portion of the Palo Alto Baylands to its natural state, the city's Parks and Recreation commissioners learned Tuesday evening.

A renovation and flood-control project would remove the equivalent of 6 acres of tree canopy from the course as part of the Golf Course Reconfiguration and Baylands Athletic Center Expansion Project. About 300 of them would be replaced.

The replacement trees would be smaller, native Bay Area species with less canopy, and it could take decades for the canopy to catch up to the level of environmental benefits offered by the trees standing today, according to a proposal report.

City staff presented the commission with three proposals for how to mitigate the tree removal, from replacing the trees in locations spread throughout the city to situating them all in city open space. The third proposal, a hybrid plan, would restore a portion of the Baylands to native wetland in addition to replacing hundreds of trees, Urban Forester Walter Passmore said.

Trees were not part of the native landscape to begin with, he noted.

The plan would net the city more than 800 trees to replace the 543 removed. In addition to planting trees at the golf course, some 500 saplings and seedlings at Pearson-Arastradero Preserve would be identified for focused preservation efforts, Passmore said.

Parks and Recreation commissioners were intrigued by the hybrid plan. It presents an opportunity to improve the wetlands while replacing the city's canopy, they said.

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'Holistic' plan proposed for golf course tree replacement