Age-Old Tree to be Cut Down on UO Campus

EUGENE, Ore. A tree on the University of Oregon campus thats more than 70 years-old is on the chopping block, because of construction at the Erb Memorial Union.

But a landscape architecture professor says hes not giving up his efforts to stop the removal of the age-old tree.

Professor Whitey Lueck says landscapes and buildings arent separate, they work together.

And it would be taking away a piece of history from campus.

EMU director Laurie Woodward says the tree, a London Plane tree, was considered in the new EMU design.

But there wasnt a way to work around it.

Woodward says they didnt focus on this one tree, but all of the trees that might have to come down.

But professor Lueck says the design committees process wasnt thorough enough.

I really have no choice to but to make a small stink at that point rather than have to explain to my students next year, or five years or ten years from now why I didnt stand up for that tree, said professor Lueck.

The whole staff has been, is sad to see them go. Its not a decision that anybody made lightly, said Woodward.

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Age-Old Tree to be Cut Down on UO Campus