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	Online Petition: (Click Here To Add Your Name To The Petition) 1. Christine Foster 8/23/2008 12:06:25 PM 2. Please keep our trees I have spent many long walks to classes gazing at these lovely trees. To lose them would be as terrible as losing Bryan Hall itself. Jennifer L. Woodward Harris, alumna 8/22/2008 7:40:01 PM 3. Please keep the trees, the shade, the beauty As a parent paying for my daughter's education at WSU, I don't much care for spending more money on cutting down old beautiful trees in order to make the campus more "beautiful". What's so beautiful about brick buildings with no trees for shade and cooling? I grew up in Eastern Washington and know how hot it gets. When I'm visiting my daughter, I look for the shady areas to walk in. WSU has a beautiful campus. Please keep the trees and keep it beautiful. D. Morton, Paying Parent 8/21/2008 1:56:05 PM 4. The trees show WSU pride One of the reasons students choose to attend WSU is because of its location. It is secluded, tucked in a beautiful area full of people who care about the community and university. Removing these trees shows contempt for this truth. WSU's campus is one-of-a-kind, thanks in-part to its natural beauty. Leave the trees for the community, students, and especially incoming freshmen. They chose WSU for the communal atmosphere, not pavement. Concerned WSU Alum 8/19/2008 2:55:15 PM 5. As a recent alum, I hate to see the trees go! These trees make the campus so rich and beautiful. They're natural wonders. It makes WSU look bad to cut down such beloved trees, and it harms the environment and student satisfaction. The trees symbolize just as much Coug pride as any building on campus. Matthew McVicker, Alum 2008 8/19/2008 2:49:02 PM 6. Do not cut down trees unnecessarily Every tree is important and should be a treasure to our campus. If there is no essential reason to cut it down-don't! Nickolas Conrad from History Department 8/15/2008 12:30:40 PM 7. But Then What Will We Put on Our Postcards? WSU promotional material would be greatly lacking if all they had to show were some old brick buildings and students with cheezy smiles. The trees are a great draw to this university! I'm from Western Washington, so I feel most at home when I'm surrounded by trees - something you can only find in select locations this side of the mountains (namely, ON CAMPUS!) Besides, where else am I supposed to set my gaze when my mind wanders during lectures? CUT CLASS, NOT TREES! Leanne Smith, Student, School of Communication 8/13/2008 10:55:45 AM 8. Don't cut down history The trees on campus are hundreds of years old. They are at least as old as this university. To remove these trees as part of some beautification project will have the opposite effect. The trees below Avery provide an atmosphere that is unique to Washington State. Please don't make our university a cliche. Leave the trees as they are. Jacob Wright 8/12/2008 9:45:08 PM 9. Our Beautiful Campus Our great campus is in the middle of the Palouse, where trees are few and far between. Why destroy the few we have? This is very upsetting to me. Laura Gratz, B.A., MEd., WSU graduate 8/12/2008 4:22:00 PM 10. Save The Trees The trees are what makes that part of the campus so beautiful and enjoyable. Jamie Moorhead 8/12/2008 10:45:50 AM 11. Kiley Branson Gibson 8/12/2008 1:32:05 AM 12. alex gibson 8/12/2008 1:31:07 AM 13. Save the Trees!! Tree = Life Dewi Chandra, undergrad student, CE 8/11/2008 11:27:47 AM 14. How is cutting down trees "beautifiction?" Please don't ruin our beautiful campus! Ariana Noel Shelley 8/10/2008 10:47:41 PM 15. Save the trees Part of the beauty on our campus are our trees. Please don't take this important part away. Samantha Tuskan, Alumni 8/10/2008 12:43:32 PM 16. Real Green Matters! These trees take almost a centurie to create, lets not act to quickly. Take a long term view! Dru Butler 8/10/2008 12:13:36 PM 17. Keep WSU Beautiful ... Keep WSU Green! I hope future cougs can see the great wsu campus as Myself and those before me did, with trees and all. Michael L. Thomas wsu student 04-07' 8/9/2008 3:44:19 PM 18. Save Our Tree's We should save the tree's. They are the only good thing about the horribly hot summers and crazy cold winters! Jonathan Nitkowski 8/8/2008 6:31:11 PM 19. Save the trees! There is so much history and beauty in these trees. Not to mention the good clean air. We must do something now because when we are gone the next generation of students will never have know they were even their. Michael Di Filippo, Graduate Student, Food Science 8/8/2008 2:17:31 PM 20. As an alum of WSU who spent 6 years among the glorious trees around Avery, I am stunned to get the news of plans to cut these trees down. What a travesty! How can students-staff-faculty manage to keep a perspective on all those grueling studies without those lovely green environs to offer perspective? And in the midst of growing concerns about global warming as well! Please respect the needs of nature & humans. Don't do this! Annette White-Parks, Faculty Emerita, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 8/8/2008 1:08:28 PM 21. Please Save the TREES. They are what makes this campus beautiful. Mariah Maki 8/7/2008 10:59:44 AM 22. How is it beautification to tear down something beautiful? I don't understand how it is considered beautification to tear down soemthing as beautiful as campus trees. One of the great things about college campuses is their beauty and peacefulness. Much of this comes from the trees and grassy areas around campus. Those trees provde places to study, shade, somewhere to have lunch, and general enjoyment to those who walk past. The trees need to be kept especially on a campus that has far too few trees as it is. Julie- Graduate in Agricultural Communications 8/5/2008 5:46:56 PM 23. How hard did WSU try to find an alternative to destroying the trees? I searched for 30 seconds and found two companies that could of tried to save our trees. Northwesttreespades would of transplanted them for us. www.northwesttreespades.com and dblblackdiamondtreesvcdex.com they specialize in tree maintence and consulting. Who is in charge of this project? Zy 8/5/2008 4:52:40 PM 24. Cole Atkison, Department of Business 8/5/2008 2:23:41 PM 25. I have always felt WSU's campus was one of the prettiest. The trees are a major part of that. Don't destroy them. Stan Berry, Admissions, retired 8/5/2008 1:21:25 PM 26. Keep The Tress! The are part of the history of our campus! My dad went here and those trees were a part of his time here and it would be a shame to take that away! Casey 8/5/2008 11:14:48 AM 27. Keep our campus beautiful! When living amongst acres of wheat fields, the large trees on our campus provide shade, beauty, and shelter for our student and wildlife. Cutting them down would be a crime. Kimberly Kern 8/4/2008 9:22:24 PM 28. Don't take away the trees! The trees are a what beautify the campus. It's what gives it a nostalgic, historical feel. The campus will look naked and ugly without them. Laura Lea O., '93 Pharmacy 8/4/2008 8:05:41 PM 29. Please let the existing trees live. The trees are beautiful. Plus they provide homes to birds and squirrels. They all deserve a chance at life, don't you agree? Carmel Travis, Associate Broker, Summit Realty 8/4/2008 12:34:32 PM 30. Completely Crazy I love those trees. Don't do it. Melissa Kiepke, Class of '00 and '02 8/3/2008 11:48:18 PM 31. why? Why does the phrase "campus beautification" always coincide with the idea of "destruction of nature"? The campus was beautiful enough before all the construction and "renovations" began...stop the madness!! Holly, Department of Natural Resource Sciences 8/3/2008 6:20:56 PM 32. Leave the trees alone! Cutting down trees just to expand the concrete jungle doesn't create beauty. All it does is cause us to forget what real beauty is. And where will it stop? Nathanael L. 8/3/2008 1:41:03 AM 33. Completely unnecessary. Completely innappropriate. Please do now remove beautiful, historic trees for a foolish plan. WSU is a university of pride and history. By taking away the trees, this takes away a connecting apect of previous generations of students to the current students of today. Cougs will not hold pride in wimpy saplings if they are the replacements of the trees that our parents walked beneathe when they were students. Go Cougs! Jonathan Merrill, Graduate, SHBM 8/3/2008 1:18:40 AM 34. Please don't cut Let's decide to come up with another plan. One that keeps the trees alive. Thank you for your earnest consideration. Michelle 8/2/2008 7:12:47 PM 35. i love tree trees are pretty and shady. straight up, let's keep them. kate 8/1/2008 3:04:30 PM 36. Please, don't cut them down! Part of the beauty on this campus is the trees. Didn't the architects have a "plan" to work around them? They are one of WSU's most beautiful resources and I can't believe that this "diverse" university is willing to cut them down. 8/1/2008 2:03:55 PM 37. GOOD MORNING STARSHINE...THE EARTH SAYS HELLOOOOOOOO How about the trees that were already cut down for the Martin Stadium renovation or the trees that were cut down at the current construction site between Bryan Hall and the Holland Library? Is the plan to Corpratize WSU?...planting the same trees in lines surrounded by concrete? Even if the trees have to be removed isn't there a better option available instead of destroying them? I tried to preserve a section of a trunk that had been cut down in previous construction. As I was walking home with the piece of wood I was stoped by the police ( because carrying a piece of wood is against the law...right?) I got the choice to be arrested or return the wood to where I found it...what is happening to Pullman? Zac 8/1/2008 1:09:40 PM 38. Save the Trees! Save the trees! They are a beautiful part of our campus and we need to keep it that way. Brett Taylor 8/1/2008 11:57:44 AM 39. Cut Mr. Wright instead I was recently visiting campus (from Athens, Ohio) and read Mr. Wright's comments in the papers. I don't support his narrow view; any plan can be revised. Stephen M.Simko, alumnus (1972, 1983) 8/1/2008 9:56:33 AM 40. Save the trees! Pullman needs more trees. not less Andy Sargent 01 alum 8/1/2008 7:45:48 AM 41. The trees need to stay! Arlo Chambers 8/1/2008 12:22:11 AM 42. Save the trees! Keep campus beautiful by saving these trees! Loren Baker 7/31/2008 8:25:47 PM 43. Keep it cool! Trees cool down the temperature by as much as ten degrees compared to concrete. Dont cut them down! MK 7/31/2008 4:27:02 PM 44. Don't Kill the Trees Let's keep it simple. Don't cut down trees. Mark Dodd, Former WSU Graduate Student 7/31/2008 4:23:36 PM 45. Trees are poems! "Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky./ We fell them down and turn them into paper/ That we may record our emptiness." - Kahlil Gibran Those trees surrounding Avery Hall have long provided beauty, ambiance and shade. They were there when my father attended WSU! Future generations will surely thank us if we have the generosity and good sense to allow the trees to remain. M. Austin, Ph.D. English, '96 7/31/2008 3:57:30 PM 46. Let the trees live 7/31/2008 10:57:38 AM 47. Save Avery Hall Trees Getting rid of shade and oxygen somehow makes the campus more beautiful? How does that work? Nathan Elliott, WSU English grad alumnus 7/31/2008 10:48:45 AM 48. Beautification? What's more beautiful than a tree? Trees are one of things that make college campuses beautiful. They provide needed shade, a place to study, and something to enjoy while trekking accross campus. Removing trees from a geographic area that already doesn't have many trees is a poor choice. 7/31/2008 9:44:04 AM 49. Trees = Life Trees are beautiful, life-giving, benefactors of oxygen. Don't cut down the trees that help our oxygen-loving brains grow! Patricia, sister of incoming freshman 7/30/2008 9:20:32 PM 50. Beautiful As Is! I remember having class outside under those trees! That area is so beautiful and peaceful! Please dont cut them down! Suzanne "CHOW" - Alumni 7/30/2008 3:56:51 PM 51. The trees are one of the only beautiful things about the WSU campus. Instead of cutting trees down, we should be planting them. Caitlin Cecil 7/30/2008 2:59:15 PM 52. WSU Student Bailey Gates 7/30/2008 12:07:49 AM 53. Words to remember I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. Dr. Seuss, The Lorax 7/29/2008 11:56:16 PM 54. The Averys would not want this I knew the Averys. This building was build to honor Emmett. I remember Mary (Emmett's wife) telling me how wonderful it was that the building was built without cutting down any trees. I was happy to see Professor Linden's note about the building of Avery Hall. His note says all that needs to be said about the history of the building and the trees. The history of the building is important. (#308 when I read it.) Please do not cut down the trees, it just doesn't seem the correct way to continue to honor the Averys. Mary Ann Rutherford WSU 1971 7/29/2008 8:53:38 PM 55. Save the Trees! Don't take out the only natural resources we have on campus! 7/29/2008 8:23:07 PM 56. Luanne Lowe Please save the Avery Hall trees, they are a beautiful part of the campus and are living history. 7/29/2008 6:17:55 PM 57. Dont cut down the trees! 7/29/2008 3:05:08 PM 58. Trees are beautiful Please don't cut down those trees, they are part of what makes our campus beautiful. Victor Vlist 7/29/2008 2:41:08 PM 59. Beautification? Ridiculous! The trees are beautiful themselves! I'd hate to see them destroyed because some idiots failed to consider the many contributions these trees make to our environment. Andy Harrison, 2003 Alumnus 7/29/2008 6:21:32 AM 60. Save Trees! SAVE THE EARTH! In a time of rising greenhouse gas emissions, how can people even think of cutting trees! The Earth can't afford to loose anymore trees!! The Palouse prides itself on conservation, recycling, and going green. I hate to think that WSU would forget this just for 'beautification.' Don't hide behind the excuse that its for the students and future generations. E. Gentry, UI Campus Mail and Recieving 7/28/2008 4:23:44 PM 61. Save The Trees! It doesn't make any sense to cut them down... Enough "beautification" has already been done in front of the library. Jay Harris, Student, School of Communication 7/28/2008 4:01:38 PM 62. Alumni Do not cut the trees! Esteban Rodriguez-Marek 7/28/2008 3:32:10 PM 63. Avoid egregious error I was horrified to read in the Evergreen that the beautiful, old trees—virtual treasures—are to be cut down because they “did not accommodate the design” of the new Library Road. Good grief! What about the environmental value of the trees and carbon sequestration, let alone the aesthetic value of the trees? In this time that requires attention to greenhouse gases and global warming, it is unconscionable that you would consider removing those trees. Those trees, and ones like them elsewhere, are an integral part of the beauty of this campus, as well. It will take 50 years, literally, to replace that grandeur. It would be an egregious error to allow those trees to be cut down. Please reconsider. Carol Petersen, CVM - WADDL 7/28/2008 12:45:02 PM 64. Prof. Linda Heidenreich 7/28/2008 12:05:01 PM 65. Asst. Prof. Wood Materials and Engineering Karl Englund 7/28/2008 12:02:21 PM 66. What possible Motive? Planning for the CUB overhaul required the removal of the campus fire department so that the general contractor could move in. Now there's a plan to overhaul the Bookie for some other use. Are these trees going to be taken down for the same convenience, i.e., contractor accommodation? Well, if CPD can take down the whole fire department, then it sure as hell can take down these trees. 7/28/2008 9:33:35 AM 67. Please don't cut down any more trees Unfortunately, the first I knew of plans to cut down the trees was hearing the crash as the spruce outside College Hall came down. We stood at the window and mourned. Ben Ford, IPEM IS Coordinator, Anthropology 7/28/2008 12:17:47 AM 68. Save the trees My parents worked at the University. Its beauty was a big part of my growing-up years. It should be kept that way for future generations. Janet Holton Klug 7/27/2008 7:58:58 PM 69. Sustainability = TREES If WSU truly wishes to be a sustainable university with world-class green policies, these trees must be saved. It seems outlandish to me that my alma mater is undertaking such a short-sighted and harmful campaign, destroying that which helps give us the very air we breathe. There are few enough trees in the Palouse region. Please do not cut down these lovely and beloved friends. Diana Archibald, Ph.D., English (1998) 7/27/2008 6:16:50 PM 70. Don't cut the trees! Please don't cut down any more trees in the name of 'beautification'! In this location, what can be more beautiful than the trees?! Unshaded concrete = unbearable heat :( Laura Anderson, WSU class of 2000 alum and WSU Vet College class of 2012 7/27/2008 2:15:46 PM 71. save the trees! Tyler Weinbrecht 7/27/2008 1:12:25 PM 72. V. Lane's Distruction of WSU Continues.... First the Bookie.... Then the staff.... And now the trees.... V. Lane's legacy continues. It's time to stop. Save the trees! George Martin '92 Alum 7/27/2008 11:17:39 AM 73. Save the Trees Alison Kirpes, Graduate Student, Education 7/27/2008 10:36:46 AM 74. Why cut them down? I don't understand why you have to cut down trees to make an area more beautiful. That walk was one of my favorite areas of campus! Kasi Snyder, WSU Alum 2007 7/26/2008 9:56:03 PM 75. Cougar Pride ~ Save The Trees! Mike O'Neil, Classified Staff, Animal Science 7/26/2008 9:39:07 PM 76. Established Trees indicative of a Distinguished University Is this a 100+ year-old university or is it ITT Tech? WSU is more than saplings and Jersey barriers. If you continue to destroy our decades old trees, Our campus is going to look like the parking lot at Safeway. Saplings don't provide shade, they don't block the wind, and they aren't more aesthetically pleasing than mature trees! Nick Anderson, Alum 7/26/2008 3:32:37 PM 77. 2008 Alumni for Saving the Trees! The walk by Avery is one of the prettiest on campus, and as a brand new Alumni member, when I come to visit I would like it to still be beautiful. Beautification should involve planting more trees, not removing them! Tiffany Loper 7/26/2008 12:36:20 PM 78. SAVE THE TREES What were the results of the environmental study before the contract was signed? Or did the WSU staff take it upon themselves to skip that step? If so, seems to me that someone needs to evaluate their job skills and performance of duties! The Northwest is well known for their gorgeous green trees. Don't turn WSU into a bare ugly campus that will steer future students from coming to WSU. SAVE THE TREES inspite of signing a million dollar contract to cut them down! S DRUFFEL 7/26/2008 10:38:32 AM 79. Save the trees. Steve Dodgen 7/25/2008 10:10:53 PM 80. Doesn't make sense to cut down trees in order to plant others. Ana Dodgen 7/25/2008 10:09:53 PM 81. Fewer Trees=Less Oxygen=Reduced Mental Capacity FREE, irreplaceable ecosystem services from trees that enrich air quality and moderate surrounding temperatures aren't good (beautiful?) enough for WSU? Helen Yost, U of I Conservation Social Sciences Ph.D. student, Friends of the Clearwater 7/25/2008 9:42:17 PM 82. Why try and fix something that is not broken?? As the saying goes why try and fix something that is not broken. Well why try to beautify something that is already so beautiful? Let's do whatever is necessary to keep these trees here!! Georgina Maulupe Current Student 7/25/2008 6:56:30 PM 83. SAVE THE TREES! 7/25/2008 6:06:19 PM 84. Save Avery Hall trees Please save those beautiful trees! Joan Easton 7/25/2008 3:01:24 PM 85. Beautification? Cutting down these trees for a few more parking spaces is a waste of money and a very poor decision. We need to be replacing pavement with trees, not the other way around. Dena Marchant 7/25/2008 2:42:45 PM 86. Please keep our campus green! Jennifer Boie, WSU Alumni and Pullman resident 7/25/2008 2:05:22 PM 87. Do everyone a favor and save the trees! Joanna Pierce, Alum College of Agricultura, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences 7/25/2008 12:45:25 PM 88. Avery Hall Trees There is no question in my mind about the beauty of the Avery Hall trees & their value in providing shade & cooler temperatures to the area where they are located. If a tree specialist has not determined that they are diseased or overgrown, I am wondering why the planners would choose to destroy a positive benefit to our environment. Catherine Ritchie 7/25/2008 11:50:37 AM 89. Please preserve these trees. May their beauty, their shelter, and presence continue. Joyce Busch 7/25/2008 10:30:53 AM 90. Save the beautiful trees in "Avery Grove"! Terry Busch 7/25/2008 10:04:01 AM 91. Trees are beautiful Don't cut down the trees! Find other ways to achieve the goals of the beautification project, but leave the trees for all to enjoy. Thomas Bashford 7/25/2008 9:46:05 AM 92. Save The Trees Yes, Please save our beautiful trees. It makes our campus look so nice. Kay Clark 7/25/2008 7:21:57 AM 93. The Majestic Trees In the words of Henry Ward Beecher, "Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that." The majestic trees of Avery Grove have been valued and respected for generations. Avery Hall was designed around the grove in order to preserve the trees. To cut them down would be a travesty. Kimberly Cathcart (granddaughter of Professor Emmett Avery) 7/25/2008 1:42:57 AM 94. leave em alone! They are what makes campus beautiful, why in the world should they be cut down! 7/25/2008 1:12:34 AM 95. Save the trees! Kathleen Searles 7/25/2008 12:36:25 AM 96. Don't do it! I recently graduated... and will miss the trees when I come back for sporting events. Abbey Assink 7/24/2008 10:25:25 PM 97. save the trees they are old and wise 7/24/2008 9:04:11 PM 98. Memories I have recently graduated from WSU and loved the beauty of our campus. Compared to every other campus none compare to ours. Everything the trees monuments and buildings add to who we are as a WSU Community. In the four years I was at WSU I never once heard anyone complaining about those trees. Even people who were there before me never once mentioned those trees being a problem. Please do not tarnish the alumni's memories of The greatest college. Chris Becker 7/24/2008 7:05:29 PM 99. Save the trees! I'm writing from North Carolina to urge you NOT to cut down the beautiful trees around Avery Hall. Keith Cushman 7/24/2008 6:54:07 PM 100. Please Keep the Trees This plan seems wasteful, hypocritical, and arrogant. Tim Mayock, student 7/24/2008 4:58:10 PM 101. NO! NO! NO! The Avery trees were growing when I was a small child taking walks with my parents across the campus. They are a memory in many Cougs minds and would be a tremendous loss to the Cougar Country. B. Young 7/24/2008 4:39:23 PM 102. The Trees Are Beautiful! If they really want to beautify the campus add more trees, don’t cut them down. The only thing that makes the WSU campus not look like its flat and dry surroundings is the trees it has throughout the campus. Ashley Rockwell 7/24/2008 2:51:50 PM 103. Save the Trees! Don't make WSU a concrete wasteland! Jim Haendiges, English Department 7/24/2008 2:10:07 PM 104. This could even hurt our winning basket ball program. Where will Caleb Forrest get his inspiration? 7/24/2008 2:03:56 PM 105. KEEP THE TREES THIS IS MY HOME TOWN AND THESE TREES ARE PART OF IT. KEEP THEM ROXY LEE (HUFF) LUNDBERG 7/24/2008 12:50:03 PM 106. DON'T DESTROY OUR TREES THEY MAKE THE CAMPUS OF WSU RONALD R. LUNDBER : ALUMN 1960 7/24/2008 12:48:38 PM 107. Save the trees! Please don't cut down these trees. They are very important to the students and faculty at WSU Pullman, and the destruction of them will not assist in improving our campus. WSU Pullman Undergrad 7/24/2008 12:37:20 PM 108. Are you KIDDING?!??!?! I would like to speak to the small minded person or committee that actually came to this decision. How can someone be given authority to make such decisions without having the knowledge of how to use that authority????? It boggles the mind that something so horrific and clearly against the majority opinion could be allowed to take place. In what way are stumps and spindly little saplings more beautiful than mature trees? Have you even seen WSU in the fall with all the leaves in different colors?? Now THAT's beautiful!!!! Mark Hinrichs, Architect, College of Architecture 1989 7/24/2008 12:34:24 PM 109. Dismayed alumni I was about to purchase a lifetime Alumni Assoc. membership, but if these trees are removed I'll abstain. Cat Sloan 7/24/2008 12:32:56 PM 110. How is removing trees beautiful I fail to see how the removal of nature is "beautification", the idea just seems counterintuitive. Plus the trees add to the academic feel of campus. David Arnold 7/24/2008 12:10:29 PM 111. What a stupid and greedy idea!! I can not believe someone okayed this stupid plan in the name of "beautifying" and fixing "infrastructure" problems. I think someone was out for money and manipulated minor problems to sway the decision for taking wonderful trees. That was my favorite place on campus - not anymore. Way to go Amy 7/24/2008 11:15:09 AM 112. I'm going to transfer to UW if this happens! It's not worth it Kim Jemelka 7/24/2008 11:12:03 AM 113. Save the Trees! You cannot replace them if they are destroyed...please save them. Danalynn Volkman 7/24/2008 11:09:17 AM 114. Don't let the UW be the campus known for its old trees, and WSU only be known for its hills. Alumni parent 7/24/2008 8:43:29 AM 115. We Need the Trees Avery is ugly enough on the inside, leave the nice looking trees where they stand. Thomas Goodwin, Student 7/24/2008 2:30:23 AM 116. SAVE THE TREES! The trees are amazing! They are multifunctional! Why destroy something so beautiful and beneficial!? Megan Gerber 7/24/2008 12:09:48 AM 117. siri maier 7/24/2008 12:09:40 AM 118. Donald W. Tomlinson I moved to Pullman in 1949 and graduated from WSU in 1963. Please do not help destroy the grand old look of the campus by destroying these trees. 7/23/2008 11:14:03 PM 119. LEAVE THE TREES! Please don't cut down the trees! They are a natural resource that we can't afford to loose. 7/23/2008 9:21:01 PM 120. Save Avery Hall Trees Please, let us preserve the trees and the remembrance of the past. Penny Anderson 7/23/2008 9:18:16 PM 121. Capitol Planning's easiest path is not through the trees As a recent Alumni, I am saddened by the fact that Capitol Planning has such a blidspot to the beauty and importance of the natural portions of the campus. Cutting the trees could be avoided with proper planning; or did you just take the easiest path? Melissa Bennett-Cumming 7/23/2008 9:17:05 PM 122. The Sound of the Trees I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place? We suffer them by the day Till we lose all measure of pace, And fixity in our joys, And acquire a listening air. They are that that talks of going But never gets away; And that talks no less for knowing, As it grows wiser and older, That now it means to stay. My feet tug at the floor And my head sways to my shoulder Sometimes when I watch trees sway, From the window or the door. I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone. - There is something about nature, though we attempt to beautify our human spaces with increasing degrees of unnaturalness and superficiality, that we still find inescapably moving in a way that defies linguistic expression... something about nature that continues on without us, with no need for us... Nature cannot be captured, though it certainly can be momentarily destroyed. Please don't destroy the natural beauty, my memory, of WSU... I spent the first two years of my graduate student experience roaming the silent, well-worn paths found within - and without - Avery Hall. And, I spent a great deal of time thinking about my thesis and my future dissertation while listening to the Avery tree branches gently scraped at the window beside me. I am now nearly 3,000 miles away and yet, I still recollect the sound of the trees outside Avery whispering to me, prodding me on, reassuring me that though I was locked up inside a red brick tower, that I was still somehow intimately connected to the earth. And my recollections of those trees now remind me of home. I would site beneath these trees that you wish to cut from the earth and read Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Sidney... they all made more sense when I lay with my head resting, cradled, within the base of the trees you are wanting to rip from the earth. It was through the voice of those trees, through the rough ridges of their bark beneath my hand, through their unadulterated and unapologetic reaching towards the stars, that I realized that I too could reach beyond what was currently reachable while remaining grounded to my past and to my roots. It is, in part, because of the trees outside of Avery Hall that I am where I am today. And, it is in part because of the trees outside of Avery Hall, that my visual memory and my positive reminiscenses to others of my time at WSU are what they are. Please don't cut down the trees. There is no "beautification" in this act... Stephanie Clarke-Graham Univeristy of Maryl 7/23/2008 9:14:35 PM 123. Remove to Improve? Remove to improve? Perhaps when you're dealing with crowded teeth, but NOT when it means cutting down beautiful, mature trees to plant saplings. The "improvement project" around Avery sounds ridiculous! School of Business 7/23/2008 9:00:43 PM 124. The trees are alright Please do not cut down the trees, they are probably useful for something. Filip Wiecko--Criminal Justice 7/23/2008 8:51:50 PM 125. Save the trees I grew up in Pullman and I've always felt that campus is the most beautiful part of town. But the trees are such a huge part of the beauty and character of the campus. It would be such a shame to cut down trees that have been standing on campus longer than most of the buildings! Theresa Curry, Class of 2006 7/23/2008 8:51:09 PM 126. Please save all the trees of Avery Grove The trees were planted to honor Dr. Avery and are now adding to the beauty of the WSU campus. Please do not destroy something so special as these beautiful trees. Cathryn M. Lee 7/23/2008 7:51:37 PM 127. Don't Cut TheTrees Down! As someone who grew up in Pullman and spent a great deal of time on campus, I hope you will spare the trees which add so much to its beauty. NKT 7/23/2008 6:56:19 PM 128. Go Green! Please don't cut down the healthy trees. How ironic that we cut down natural resources and talk about being eco friendly. 7/23/2008 5:54:43 PM 129. PLEASE DON'T CUT DOWN GORGEOUS TREES PLEASE DON'T CUT DOWN GORGEOUS TREES 7/23/2008 5:12:36 PM 130. Can't we live WITH nature This whole mall project is one where living with nature, specifically the beautiful mature trees, was not a criteria of design. WHY? The first phase of the mall, down by Todd and Ableson, proved the design team failed and would fail again in pedestrian traffic flow, making the most of some really cool design possibilities, safety, and mostly building with nature by retaining our mature trees and plants. Bruce Taylor, WSU employee 7/23/2008 5:04:05 PM 131. Save the Trees!! Please do not cut down these beautiful trees. It seems so unnecessary! Haley Watson, Graduate Student, Environmental Engineering 7/23/2008 3:29:31 PM 132. Save the trees and environment! The beautiful trees help clean the air and beautify the area. Save the TREES!! Steph 7/23/2008 1:44:05 PM 133. save the trees stephanie Holloway 7/23/2008 1:30:06 PM 134. Protect this Priceless Legacy At the inception of this building, my grandfather, Professor Emmett Avery, encouraged the University to adopt a building design that would protect and preserve these magnificent trees. Please do not destroy that legacy. Generations will enjoy the shade of these trees if you protect the efforts undertaken more than forty years ago to construct a building that respected the natural beauty of the campus. Bradford Avery Steiner 7/23/2008 1:21:24 PM 135. save the trees! Shannon Butler 7/23/2008 12:51:13 PM 136. Go Green! Go Crimson, Go green. Destroying the trees takes away so much from our campus, and world. Save our trees and keep WSU beautiful and green! Michaela Butler 7/23/2008 12:50:16 PM 137. Meaningful old trees When Avery Hall was on the drawing board I remember how important it was to everyone involved to not destroy the beautiful trees on the property. The building was designed to preserve Hello Walk and all the trees. This pleased my father immensely. He felt so honored to know the building would bear his name. Please preserve the wonderful old trees. Charlote Avery Pearson (daughter of Emmett Avery) 7/23/2008 12:33:38 PM 138. We are the ones who speak for the trees! Please stop cutting down the trees. They make this campus beautiful, provide shade, and homes for birds and other animals. We try so hard with the recycling but we also need to remember this is the 'evergreen state'! Cynthia Wiecko, PhD candidate, History 7/23/2008 12:00:52 PM 139. WSU needs more trees! The Pullman campus needs more trees, not less. A. Snyder, WSU Alumna 7/23/2008 9:24:25 AM 140. Stop the WSU deforestation A campus with trees is more beautiful than one made solely of concrete. Anonymous 7/23/2008 9:21:24 AM 141. What Sneaky Timing Please reconsider 7/23/2008 8:49:36 AM 142. Save Avery Hall Trees Gerald Edwards, Professor, SBS 7/23/2008 8:29:47 AM 143. Trees provide many benefits, especially older trees Life on earth would not be possible without oxygen-generating green plants. Planetwide deforestation is a shame. Now that we are learning of climate change and the importance of sequestering carbon in older trees it becomes important to stop the madness and increase our planet's forested area ... not cut down more trees. Our educational institutions should lead the way to a sustainable, healthy future; and cutting down magnificent tress is the wrong direction to go. jonathan stoke 7/23/2008 7:43:09 AM 144. I agree - I would like to see the trees stay. Jennifer Adam, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 7/22/2008 10:44:30 PM 145. Save The Trees There are so few trees in Pullman as compared to other parts of the state. It makes sense to preserve as many as possible. David Yamashita 7/22/2008 9:52:37 PM 146. Think twice, cut once... if ever Part of the beauty of the trees on campus is the sense of continuity they evoke; thousands of students before me enjoyed their shade, and (so I thought) thousands more will in the future. Removing our roots is not the way to grow our campus! Bethany Doak 7/22/2008 9:02:28 PM 147. PLEASE SAVE THEM!!! Please please please leave these trees! 7/22/2008 8:31:01 PM 148. leave the trees the trees are fine like they are...i'm not a tree hugger or something, but all the nice trees on campus are what make parts of it beautiful in the first place. sounds like a waste of money project. 7/22/2008 8:15:42 PM 149. WSU needs trees Please do not cut down the trees on or near the WSU campus, They are to only wildlife we have and improve the look of campus greatly in season. Please work around the trees that are currently in place. Jessica Graeber 7/22/2008 8:14:37 PM 150. Misleading All the renderings of the final project have been entirely misleading. I was excited for the beautification project because I really thought that the trees that currently stand were part of those plans. It's unfortunate that the project is likely more concerned about money since I'm sure they find the work required to build around the existing trees not within their budget. Did anyone ask students and staff, the people who make WSU their home 9+ months out of the year, how to go about the project? If so, I definitely missed that boat and I'm glad people are taking action. Alaina Robertson 7/22/2008 5:59:00 PM 151. The trees are beautiful..DONT cut them down!! There aren't that many trees around here anyways, so why and the heck would you cut them down..SAVE THEM!! Karly vanBroekhoven-Apparel, Merchandising and Textiles & Fine Arts 7/22/2008 5:51:21 PM 152. Poor Planning What they are planning to do is a travesty and an example of really DUMB planning. Ashley Ater Kranov CTLT 7/22/2008 5:24:13 PM 153. Professor Trees take too long to grow back. Do not cut trees first and plant new ones instead. Markus Flury 7/22/2008 5:07:54 PM 154. Save the Trees, Please! Andy Dephtereos, Instructor, Department of English 7/22/2008 4:54:26 PM 155. So sad! These trees are priceless. Even if they plan on planting new trees, it will take decades to replace the existing ones to the stage that they are currently at. These trees provide shade in the summer, covering from the snow in the winter, and protection from the crazy winds all year round. They help us, we need to help them. Jennifer Schiewe 7/22/2008 4:31:29 PM 156. Margeaux Egelston - advertising 7/22/2008 4:21:53 PM 157. Go Green! I thought WSU had a go green approach? 7/22/2008 4:14:00 PM 158. Reconsider cutting down old trees WSU was a small land-grant college back in 1890. If there were a few saplings that also got their start around this time, perhaps we should reconsider cutting them down now. Shawn Steffan, grad student, Dept. of Entomology 7/22/2008 3:24:04 PM 159. Wesley Foundation at WSU Campus Pastor As citizens of the world, it is our responsibility to be stewards of the earth and WSU should be a place that models that value to every generation to pass through its campus. Cutting down any trees on campus because they don't fit with a "beautification project" is hypocritical and poor management of our natural resources. Alissa Bertsch Johnson 7/22/2008 3:00:12 PM 160. Kelly Watson - Undergraduate Student 7/22/2008 2:55:25 PM 161. Save the trees! I guess they don't like trees! That's just sad! 7/22/2008 2:37:38 PM 162. Stop the WSU deforestation A campus with trees is more beautiful than one made solely of concrete. Anonymous 7/22/2008 2:30:45 PM 163. Bureaucracy at its worst The lamentable series of decisions that have led to the removal of these trees are indicative of a out-of-touch office moving independent of student/faculty concern. Improved communications, through a contact at the daily evergreen this spring could have resulted in a student-driven solution that was amicable to both sides. Now we have a situation that cannot be easily rectified and will leave dissatisified parties on both ends. Floyd's adminstration should take note of the consequences of poorly planned and communicated actions, and take steps to insure they are not repeated. Sam Shaddox 7/22/2008 2:10:01 PM 164. Prettiest spots on campus This is one of the prettiest places on campus. Let's keep it that way. Tim Bret 7/22/2008 1:31:12 PM 165. You just lost a guaranteed $200 a year donation that I have been given since I graduated. I'd rather relandscape my own home than your new project. Hope you can stay warm with all the firewood you got. 7/22/2008 1:26:37 PM 166. Think first Cutting down trees should be examined with outmost care. Sammy COE 7/22/2008 1:08:11 PM 167. Monika Voege As the mother of two alumni daughters, I spent many weekends on campus. The trees are beautiful and bring a sense of calmness and coolness to a sometimes barren landscape. Keep the trees and all other flora. Too much beauty is being destroyed and being replaced by sterile concrete. 7/22/2008 12:56:56 PM 168. Please Save the Trees! Cougar is not the only specialty of WSU, but also the TREES! Save Them! Prue Chan 7/22/2008 12:23:23 PM 169. Those trees is everything to WSU! Please don't cut down those trees! We, WSU student love those trees so much. Cougar is not the only specialty of WSU, but also the TREES! Prue Chan 7/22/2008 12:21:11 PM 170. SAVE THE TREES! If we are trying to have a more sustainable campus cutting down trees isn't the right way to go about it. Maddie Freiberg, Director of Marketing, ASWSU 7/22/2008 12:18:52 PM 171. Hilary Thie 7/22/2008 12:16:11 PM 172. Do not cut down the trees Please Gretchen Snyder 7/22/2008 12:07:29 PM 173. I dont know about WSU's Natural resource ahaha! but they do remind of our natural resources off campus... while we study natural resource on campus and how to preserve our environment. 7/22/2008 12:03:24 PM 174. Until the public is provided with a strong Design Plan to phase these trees out of the campus it seems as if the trees provide shade and appeal that cannot be replaced over night. Heidi Forseth, Landscape Architecture Student 7/22/2008 11:48:49 AM 175. As a graduate of WSU, I'm afraid that when I come back to visit for this years Apple Cup I wont recognize the campus I spent the best four years of my life on. Coug Alum 7/22/2008 11:40:31 AM 176. Mrs. Heidi Downey 7/22/2008 11:38:29 AM 177. Save the Trees!! We need trees, they produce oxygen and clean the air, it is a travesty that this is happening. Please save the trees!! Sanford Richmond PhD Candidate, Teaching and Learning 7/22/2008 11:37:07 AM 178. Keep the trees! Cutting down the mature, beautiful old trees around Avery Hall would be a terrible mistake. WSU should learn a lesson from its (greener) neighbor, the University of Idaho, a school that not only preserves its old-growth trees but celebrates them as part of campus history, culture, and geography. (www.greenmap.uidaho.edu) Laura Godfrey, Ph.D. English, 2005 7/22/2008 11:31:48 AM 179. Trees are being destroyed for no reason The stately trees on campus encompass a feeling of tradition, endurance, and familiarity. If the trees are healthy, there's no need to remove them. In addition, they provide shade in the summer, and shelter in winter. 7/22/2008 10:54:51 AM 180. Less Concrete More Trees! Please try and maintain the existing trees on campus!! The benefits of tree cover are overwhelming, besides adding athestic beauty to the campus. Last year I would take the bus into campus and notice additional mature trees gone almost weekly. PLEASE STOP! Please make a difference and keep our trees! WSU Student Anonymous 7/22/2008 10:43:50 AM 181. Save them 7/22/2008 10:26:32 AM 182. Stop it! As THE most beautiful campus in the Northwest, why would WSU want to ruin that? Peter MacDonald, Alumni '04, SHBM 7/22/2008 10:17:39 AM 183. Academic Counselor Please SAVE our trees! 7/22/2008 9:49:03 AM 184. Sustainability As of late, society, especially public institutions such as WSU, touts the golden word of present, “sustainability.” As I see it, the word is used as a means to quick, easy money and not a path towards long term economic survivability of our race and coexistence with the world we are lucky to live in. Case in point….the trees around Wilson Hall. WSU leadership would rather hastily eliminate the trees rather than benefit from their presence. Tress shade their surroundings cooling the immediate area under their canopy, which during the summer months can lead to lower energy requirements for cooling of the shaded buildings. I know this is forward thinking, but shouldn’t we expect this from the sustainability touting leaders of an institution such as WSU? Jacob McCoskey 7/22/2008 9:40:44 AM 185. Thinking helps! (1) Kermit the Frog would argue that green is beautiful. (2) Green is the color that symbolizes hope. Should one cut hope down? (3) Many countries have federal laws against cutting down trees. (4) Boyscouts are kicked out of the club for cutting down trees. (5) Trees clean the air, more than can be said for humans. (6) Please consider alternatives to needlessly destroying such a natural resource. H. Drake 7/22/2008 9:12:56 AM 186. Save the Trees! My husband and I are planning a visit to to see our family and WSU. It saddens me to think that the trees may not be there when we arrive. Save the trees!! Tanya Alderete 7/22/2008 9:00:27 AM 187. save the trees! We were just there for orientation and commented on how necessary the beautiful trees were,especially in the summer! Keep em! SusanRobinson Seattle parent 7/22/2008 8:39:18 AM 188. Member, Lipan Apache & Jumano Apache WSU has an opportunity to show how it responds to its diverse constituencies, and to demonstrate an ethics of "RESPONSIBILITIES" rather than "RIGHTS". The faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students who cannot be present on campus during the summer months are fatigued by the subversive manner in which administration makes sweeping unilateral decisions about our community life and the quality of our life on campus DURING SUMMER MONTHS!!! This is yet one more example of WSU UPPER ADMIN and BOARDS' lack of regard for true democratic eucation and participatory community. The destruction of the trees around WILSON looked more like an attempt to clear the way for technological surveillance on students, faculty and staff, rather than 'enhancing' safety, and other rationale provided by WSU press statements after they were heavily critiqued by campus communities. I support a campus wide sit in, teach in and other spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity for the life of the tree nations who are being persecuted on this campus. We are being forced to participate in passive psychological warfare against a precious life community on campus--period. The people are speaking out against the disregard and disrespect for life, period. Save the trees and Save responsibility! Margo Tamez 7/22/2008 8:24:50 AM 189. Boeing Change Management Please save the trees Tim Tyo 7/22/2008 8:24:32 AM 190. Shame on you. In this time of heightened environmental concern the destruction of healthy trees is unforgivable. Incorporating the trees should have been a basic redesign requirement. Shame on the head project manager. Poor decisions such as this will negatively impact the WSU campus for years to come. Katie, parent of WSU student 7/22/2008 8:05:07 AM 191. Please, keep the trees These trees are "survivors." They deserve to live. Yany Gregoire, Assistant Professor of Marketing 7/22/2008 7:34:34 AM 192. Please save the trees! Jeanne Bartlett - '71 7/22/2008 2:36:02 AM 193. SAVE THE TREES!!! Keep WSU Green!!! WSU would not be the same without these trees!!! We love them and it's still pedestrian friendly with trees, the Avery hill would be naked without them!!! WSU Student, class of 2010 7/22/2008 1:25:30 AM 194. President Elson Floyd- please keep the trees ! Show your real leadership abilities and step-up to save these trees ! Stan Lonseth - Architecture '75 7/22/2008 12:44:41 AM 195. Faulty thinking Taking the trees which are a necessity to the beauty of WSU is a concept faulty to its very core. Miles Lockwood, Pullman resident 7/21/2008 9:17:50 PM 196. save the trees I just graduated from the ICN in spokane, but remember how beautiful those trees were when I was in pullman. It's already a beautiful area, why not just work there beauty into the plan. Renee Tucker RN, BSN (WSU alumni) 7/21/2008 8:59:49 PM 197. I want trees As we can see, the environment of our Earth becomes worse and worse. We should do anyhing to protect the environment. 7/21/2008 8:36:08 PM 198. Save the Trees because we can choose life....even the life of a tree....over designs and plans. carolyn cress, citizen of pullman 7/21/2008 8:11:29 PM 199. Beauty? Respectfully, as a summer student, seeing the trees chopped down on the hill leading up to the CUE this summer was one of the most depressing days of summer classes. They were beautiful, please dont cut down anymore of the trees, stumps are really ugly. Michelle Graves WSU Student 7/21/2008 6:15:14 PM 200. Trees hold Value In a world of wheatfield each tree has immeasurable value...please don't cut them down! Esther Pratt, OGRD 7/21/2008 5:45:39 PM 201. Leave those trees alone I have always enjoyed the quiet beauty of the trees in front of Avery Hall. Please don't cut them down! Svetlana Lockwood, Undergraduate Student in Computer Science 7/21/2008 5:15:06 PM 202. Save the Trees I walk under those trees everyday on my way to classes. They provide shade and coverage during rain and snow. Don't cut them down! Kathryn Jewett 7/21/2008 4:56:44 PM 203. MADNESS??!!! SAVE THE TREES!! Who in their right minds would think of such a cruel thing to do!!! YN 7/21/2008 4:55:25 PM 204. I would have expected better judgment As an architect, with landscape architecture part of my qualifications, this decision leaves me dumbfounded. Just looking at it as a professional, disregarding for a moment the ecological factor, I cannot see the true gain of such a “beautification project”. As we all know, during the project, the landscape architect will suggest planting of new trees. The dear colleague will most likely have a choice of fast growing trees to suggest and, when the client (WSU) realizes what “fast” means regarding trees, will then explain the option of planting trees that have already reached a certain age and size which will have to be bought , uprooted from the tree nursery and then transported to the site. I of course do not know the prices in the US for this but… But I am unable to understand how, with the unstable financial situation the western world finds itself in today, anyone can justify paying men to cut down trees, to then pay a professional to suggest new trees to be bought and planted in their place. It does sound absurd. And I am not sure how a university making such a choice can honestly claim to provide “world-class” education. Stavros Tsiakalos - dipl. Architect (Thessaloniki - Greece) 7/21/2008 4:51:11 PM 205. As a graduate of WSU, I'm afraid that when I come back to visit for this years Apple Cup I wont recognize the campus I spent the best four years of my life on. Coug Alum 7/21/2008 4:14:02 PM 206. Absurd. There aren't very many trees on campus to begin with, we should keep all that we possibly can. 7/21/2008 3:52:14 PM 207. Beautify the campus -- save mature trees and plant many more! As William Blake wrote: "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way." Save the trees! Plant many more! Cynthia Selde WSU Learning Centers 7/21/2008 3:44:59 PM 208. CPD ought to look for alternatives I read the article on the fron page of Jully 17 issue of Evergreen and have a question: All engineering projects have alternatives; why does not CPD actively explore alternative solutions that save the trees while further beautifying the campus? Landscape anywhere is almost always enhanced with mature trees, which is one reason that residents living in Moscow feel their city to be more pretty than Pullman. CPD should realize this simple fact and live up to the standard of engineers. Joan Wu, Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering 7/21/2008 3:31:10 PM 209. Anonymous Cutting down majestic trees in the name of land development is actually its destroyal. Thus, if Capital Planning and Development cannot plan ahead to incorporate existing trees it should be renamed Capital Planning Destroyal... 7/21/2008 2:53:55 PM 210. Poor decision making wont be tolerated! Someone is severely mistaken if they feel that cutting down these mature and beautiful trees is going to "beautify" the Avery Hall area. Please rethink what you are doing! Tony Cameron,Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Department 7/21/2008 2:26:39 PM 211. Please do not cut them down. The trees add beauty to the campus and it would be a shame to cut down a part of WSU's history. 7/21/2008 1:49:47 PM 212. Save the trees! Please preserve the natural beauty of the campus. Pam, mother of a junior 7/21/2008 1:18:28 PM 213. Standing Proud I'd like to remain proud of the learning and teaching I did at WSU. Leave those trees standing proud. Dana C. Elder (Ph. D. English: 1985) 7/21/2008 1:12:39 PM 214. Save the Trees; Find a Beautification Compromise I am confident there is a earth-friendly way to renovate this area without removing trees that give campus it's character and shade. WSU's "World-class, face to face" message is more authentic with trees that boast of the university's tenure than an over-landscaped garden. Let's not coug it in the last stages of this decision. Sam Torgerson, 3rd Generation WSU Alumna 7/21/2008 1:02:24 PM 215. Save the Trees! Joseph Schmidt, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 7/21/2008 1:00:03 PM 216. Jason Martin THERE ARE OTHER ALTERNATIVES!!!! Jason Martin, Student 7/21/2008 12:51:23 PM 217. Save the trees! Do not destroy our beautiful trees in the midst of a growing cement world. Carol DeVries, Cougar Alum Parent 7/21/2008 12:34:05 PM 218. If these trees have withstood the winds for all these years, it isn't necessary to cut the healthy ones down for safety reasons. And someone who states "So sorry, but you're screwed" in response to community concern should not be making decisions for generations of Cougs. Sally Horton, Emeritus 7/21/2008 12:32:43 PM 219. I like shade Please keep the mature trees. Trevor Bond, Interim Head, MASC 7/21/2008 12:28:25 PM 220. Save Them The Palouse barely have any trees as it is. Keep the few that we have standing, they're beautiful. Samantha S. 7/21/2008 12:19:31 PM 221. Save our Trees These trees enhance the beauty of our campus. So that future WSU Faculty,Staff,Students and all vistors Could enjoy the beauty of the WSU Campus. This area is within the historic part of campus and so the BEAUTY of these large old trees should be preserved or enhanced, not removed. Please try everything to rid them of any diseases before cutting the Natural Beauties of WSU. Anonymous 7/21/2008 12:13:07 PM 222. Save the trees ! They are beautiful, why cutting them ? Viviane Villechevrolle 7/21/2008 11:53:17 AM 223. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky... It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~William Blake Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb Cynthia Selde -- WSU Learning Center for SE Washington 7/21/2008 11:49:21 AM 224. How is cutting down healthy trees sustainable? Charleston Ramos, Graduate Student, CEE 7/21/2008 11:43:19 AM 225. Our university must compromise and include the beautiful existing trees in the project plan. It would be shameful if they could not do this for our future students. WSU should be exemplifying the lesson to respect and celebrate the world around us. Destroying age-old trees is not 'beautification.' Diana Worthen, Graduate Student, Civil Engineering 7/21/2008 11:32:24 AM 226. save mature trees The design team and all those involved. Perhaps your intentions are honorable, I must think that they are, but I disagree with what you are doing. The idea of making these malls is needed, however, the design seems to exclude nature, usage, and utility. It's like someones dream project laid out on paper. I'm definitely on the side of designing around what you have that is there and unique. And mature trees is high on my list. There simply is no excuse for removing all those trees!! And what have you shown me that makes me think "yea but look what they are doing.. it's going to be so great"? Well, the area in front of Todd is a missed opportunity to really utilize that area. Did anyone look into foot traffic patterns. Kids are running all over themselves trying to get in and out of Todd. That little matrix forest of ornamental trees has kids ducking and trying to get thru on cow paths angles between them stumbling on the rocks. What the hell were the designer thinking anyway? And the kids that want to go directly west (and there is a steady stream of them) have to pick there way across the meridian and balance walk across that stone work. Go watch them some time. Piss poor design. And we all know that silver maples are short lived but still, some of them and all those spruce could have been built around. For the design team to come back and fill the meridian with quacking aspens shows me that they have no consideration for the effect of mature and long lived shade trees at all. I could go on but I won't. The mess you made between Bryan and the library makes me sick. I applaud you on the progress and the successes you have made at this University, but removing all those trees and the poor design of these malls isn't one of them. Bruce G Taylor, WSU employee 7/21/2008 11:32:00 AM 227. Please don't cut trees down unnecessarily. Civil & Environmental Engr. dept. 7/21/2008 11:31:07 AM 228. I Loved the Trees from the Start When I visited the campus last August on my husband's second visit to WSU, I fell in love with the campus--and its trees! When our grandson visited us recently, we walked hand in hand amongst these majestic trees. I shall cherish that thought forever. Oh, what sadness to see the trees cut down. G. Sue Alderete 7/21/2008 11:29:45 AM 229. Save WSU Campus Trees Please don't cut down these old and stately trees that make the campus cool in the summer, a great place to hang out and of course add to teh beauty of the campus. Kaz Thea, Univeristy of Idaho Alumni 7/21/2008 11:28:56 AM 230. Tawnya Becker 7/21/2008 11:19:15 AM 231. Mr. Keith Denman Why would you do this? Mature trees make a campus. Also, to do this while everyone is on summer break is shameful. I donate $100 a year to WSU...well I used to at least. You obviously do not need my donation since you can afford to relandscape your campus. Good Luck with your "New Look" - pretigious building & sapplings. Keith. Father of Junior 7/21/2008 11:07:22 AM 232. A testament to our respect for nature Trees, in particular those that have seen various generations of students come and go from campus, are a testament to our respect for nature, our cultural inheritance, and the sacred nature of living things. To cut these trees is to undercut these values. This is not what we want to teach our new students! Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering 7/21/2008 10:55:17 AM 233. Save the trees!!! These mature trees are a beautiful and peaceful part of our campus environment Nick Foit, Professor, Earth & Environmental sciences 7/21/2008 10:48:22 AM 234. Mature Trees Shape the Campus It is tragic that our efforts to beautify the campus through the Library Road Project are leading to the destruction of already-established trees. These aged trees attest to the history of our campus and it is through reckless management of this project that they are destroying the historic atmosphere of the campus. Chelsea Bloomberg 7/21/2008 10:31:50 AM 235. Save the Trees! This is so disappointing. The beauty of the trees themselves and the shade they cast on hot days are irreplaceable. When I had an office on the third floor of Avery, I regularly watched an owl come out onto a limb to wake up in the evening. I can't imagine the campus with those trees gone. Tragic. Ingrid Ranum, former English grad student, currently on faculty at Gonzaga University 7/21/2008 9:54:27 AM 236. Sustainable Life The removal of beautiful these majestic, mature trees to "beautify" our communal space must be recognized as a direct assault upon what should be our most deeply held values: beauty, tranquility, mutual respect, and honor of all living things. Dr. Susan Dente Ross, Assoc. Dean, College of Liberal Arts 7/21/2008 9:44:50 AM 237. Our Commitment to the Environment Includes our Campus I am relatively new. Prior to my accepting this position, many colleagues from around the country who had their academic experiences at WSU P commented about the beautiful campus--and the its trees! I realize it may not be possible to save every tree. Where we can, however, we should! Thanks to President Floyd for his willingness to re-examine this important issue. Save the trees! John F. Alderete, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Professor, SMB 7/21/2008 9:36:53 AM 238. A beautiful campus doesn't mean loosing trees... What better way to keep a campus looking beautiful than to save the trees around it. Nothing man can create would compare to the beauty of Mother Nature. It would seem to be more cost effective to work with the natural beauty around than to take out the trees. Anna G. 7/21/2008 9:03:12 AM 239. trees are needed Trees are needed for quality of life, shade, oxygen and most importantly beauty. Buildings and pavement are not beautiful. Get your priorities in order. tree needer 7/21/2008 8:51:03 AM 240. SAVE THE TREES! Save the beautiful trees as they make WSU feel like home! 7/21/2008 8:18:25 AM 241. SAVE THE TREES! Anonymous 7/21/2008 8:17:00 AM 242. Please keep the WSU campus green! Craig F. Morris 7/21/2008 7:53:37 AM 243. Stop and rethink this decision When so many people who frequent this area daily are upset by this decision, it seems reasonable to stop and consider whether this is a wise decision and what could be done in the way of compromise to leave the trees. It's relatively quick and easy to remove them, but rather difficult to replace them once they are gone. Please reconsider the decision to remove them and listen to those who oppose their removal. Tim Bartlett-1971 7/21/2008 7:40:13 AM 244. Keep the Trees As is evident by the long drive to Pullman, these trees are not natural to our area. It took intention and thought and alot of effort by the school to bring these trees to WSU-they are an investment in the students, because that's who they directly benefit. They provide shade and beauty for many people who sit under them to read, study, pray, meet with friends...so many things. I think its sad that WSU seeks to deprive students of that in the name of 'beautification.' Karina Brazas 7/21/2008 7:17:03 AM 245. Don't cut the trees the best way to make the campus beautiful is to keep the trees!!! Simon 7/21/2008 6:38:26 AM 246. Trees are purty :) I like em. They're tall and my friends (the squirrels) like to play in them. ~ Delta Tau Delta 7/21/2008 12:21:50 AM 247. leave the trees please! 7/21/2008 12:07:50 AM 248. Don't do it some of the best beautification is leaving nature as is. Nick Pittman 7/21/2008 12:02:31 AM 249. Chris Culverwell Why cut down the tree's? i have only been to where they are doing it a few times, but it looks great how it is, i dont understand why they call it "beautification" Student class of '12 7/20/2008 11:53:09 PM 250. Leave the Trees Alone They are perfectly fine where they are! Sarah Myers, Undergraduate Student, Physics Department 7/20/2008 9:57:02 PM 251. Trees have feelings too If it weren't for trees on this earth we would; one: not have anything beautiful to look at, and two: we wouldn't be alive. Trees are one of the sources to earths survival. I know some might say, "Hey it's only a few trees here and there." No it's not, first it will be these "few" then it will be a whole forest full. I have never been the type of person to chain herself to a tree, or even march for a cause, but these trees are part of the WSU campus and part of the students lives here. Please don't cut these beautiful creations of nature down. Syleanna 7/20/2008 8:38:25 PM 252. Save the Trees Or Ruin the World! Please don't cut down the WSU trees. They are an important part of the college campus. The world is running out of oxygen and those trees are a valuable resource. 7/20/2008 8:05:42 PM 253. Stop Killing Trees. We need trees, not stones. Tursun Ablekim (physics) 7/20/2008 7:59:56 PM 254. Please Save Our Trees The trees here are a big part of what distinguishes our campus landscape from the miles and miles of surrounding wheat fields. Cutting them down will not help beautify the campus, just make that area much less enjoyable to walk through. It is odd to think that this is even an issue considering how strong our "Go Green" push has been this past year. I have always had complete and utter faith in this institution, I just hope that those who endorse this project are prepared to defend it. Alyssa Tanhueco 7/20/2008 7:42:33 PM 255. please leave the trees alone!!! i think wsu is pretty already. you can only make it more beautiful by planting MORE TREES not cutting it down. cheng fen chow 7/20/2008 7:39:35 PM 256. Trees are our Life. What more could I say that hasnt been said...Ddddddddiiiiiiitttttttoooooo!!!!! Solutions can come from the most simple and unlikely places....if "we" truely want one...all you have to do is look and listen....and care....please. Why not ask the children, they'll be here much longer than us anyway. Hopefully. Has anyone read "The Ringing Cedar" series of books? Uncommon wisdom about our natural world!...and what we can do...Its full of teachings from a woman who lives in the wild Siberian forests of Russia...since infancy....raised by "wild" animals. True story. We are more than we think we are...So is nature! BDWF 7/20/2008 7:06:21 PM 257. Dumbest. Plan. Ever. Get it together Administration. How is destroying beautiful, landmark trees a part of beautifying our campus? 7/20/2008 6:42:41 PM 258. Avery Hall Trees are worth preserving These trees add an illusion of gracious age to the campus. They help diffentiate WSU at Pullman from strip mall colleges. Please do not sacrifice them to expediency and paving bricks. Deb Webster 7/20/2008 6:34:16 PM 259. Save the Trees! Please rethink cutting down the trees; they are priceless! 7/20/2008 6:23:40 PM 260. WALK THE WALK ON "GREEN" I can't improve on the sentiments and arguments already expressed by my fellow signers. Offering to plant young replacement trees is not an acceptable solution to the loss of vegetation and environmental protection afforded by these beautiful, old-growth trees. Roads, sidewalks and buildings have been expanded before, and will be again. Destruction of these trees is irreversible. How do we justify it and call ourselves a "green" campus? Jane Elizabeth Lotz-Drlik, Graduate Student 7/20/2008 5:34:11 PM 261. Save trees No point in ruining existing beauty for some unseen beautification 7/20/2008 4:19:39 PM 262. My fondest memories of the Northwest are its trees, which define the Northwest's unique respect for its natural beauty. How blessed you are to have it!! Please don't take it for granted. Kris Conner, Houston, Texas 7/20/2008 2:41:33 PM 263. Sustainability? Does the deforestation of campus support the theme of sustainability? And what of the environmental impact of removing old growth trees on the eroding Palouse? Scrawny "decorative" trees are no substitute, and lawn is preferable to pavement any day, both aesthetically and for the beneficial cooling effect in the summer. Alison Hawley 7/20/2008 1:42:48 PM 264. Save WSU Trees I've never climbed a tree before, but i want the option to. Tayler W. Vasilauskas 7/20/2008 1:23:21 PM 265. Keep WSU Beautiful! As a Pacific Northwest institution, WSU should be a proponent of forest conservation, not extermination. Keep WSU green and beautiful! Jessica Hulst, Alum, Comparative Ethnic Studies 7/20/2008 12:08:35 PM 266. Don't "beautify" what's already awesome! These trees are great- I've seen more people (myself included)reading under these trees than any other outdoor space on campus. There's nothing better for keeping the english department shady and liveable. 7/20/2008 11:07:36 AM 267. FOOLISH!!!!! It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face! As a frequent visitor to WSU, I have noticed the true beauty of the campus. Just the other day I remarked to my daughter how beautiful those particular trees were - what a shame that they should be cut down, especially since they were planned around when the original buildings were in the planning/building stages. Nancy Hawley 7/20/2008 10:35:16 AM 268. Trees! Need to be saved. 7/20/2008 10:24:16 AM 269. Rain Shadow Research Inc., President Cutting the mature, healthy trees is short sighted, and reflects poor planning. Matthew J. Root 7/20/2008 8:22:57 AM 270. Please save the trees! They're such an integral part of our campus and are so beautiful! Please don't tear them down. J. Robinson 7/20/2008 12:14:52 AM 271. More Blue Hearts!!!! Keep WSU beautiful!!!! Frank Czmackle 7/20/2008 12:02:58 AM 272. Don't Cut Them Down Where am I suppose to get clean air? They are so beautiful, don't do it! 7/19/2008 10:32:22 PM 273. Save the Trees! The trees set the campus apart from the wheat fields of Eastern Washington and create a beautiful atmosphere to live and learn in. Danielle Peterson, Student 7/19/2008 10:28:01 PM 274. Save Our Trees I know this isn't doing much, but I don't think the trees should be cut. That's Eastern Washington politics for you though, crappy art and no care for the environment. I'm transferring to Evergreen. Neuroscience 7/19/2008 9:21:47 PM 275. We already have lost trees that connected us to Ed Murrow's legacy We believe we already have lost trees that were here when Murrow was a student at Washington State College. It makes us very sad. I also worry about such a significant loss of animal habitat. I am grateful that President Floyd is encouraging a careful look at alternatives to further losses. We should cut down trees only when absolutely necessary. For a sense of history from the time of Murrow's days at WSC, see the beautiful photo of WSC in 1924 at http://www.tomandrodna.com/images/wsu_1924.jpg Erica Austin, Dean, Murrow College of Communication 7/19/2008 8:54:26 PM 276. Save the Trees! Trees and shrubs are two of the things that makes the WSU campus attractive to current, past and potential students, employeed and faculty. I have fond memories of looking out of the windows of Holland Library when I worked there and seeing the trees in all of their glory during all seasons. I also enjoyed watching the birds and squirrels as they moved around tha through the greenery. Please keep the trees. If it is necessary to make Library Road "safer" and "more attractive" I am sure that you can find other means. Why wasn't this idea discussed with the general public - like the taxpayers who live in Pullman and across the state? Donna Hanson, Pullman Resident 7/19/2008 7:14:06 PM 277. Pastor, retired Please,let's do our part to reduce greenhouse gases,preserve the environment, and partner in responsible development. Walt Miller 7/19/2008 6:22:47 PM 278. Breathe easy with more trees The trees provide shade when its warmer and are pretty when covered with snow. They should stay. 7/19/2008 6:19:42 PM 279. Going green yet cutting trees? When I was at WSU with my daughter for alive, I saw signs all over campus about going green. How can you justify cutting so many trees, if your goal is, GOING GREEN!!! 7/19/2008 6:01:56 PM 280. I love the trees! The trees at WSU are one of the reasons that I chose to come to the Pullman. I wanted to live on a campus with plenty of trees. Please don't take that away! They are beautiful and carry so much history and meaning! Monica Ward 7/19/2008 5:13:20 PM 281. What are They Thinking? They are a key part of the beauty of our campus. During my undergraduate days I worked on the grounds crew covering the entire campus. Those areas are the most beautiful on campus - and its the trees that define it. 7/19/2008 4:40:25 PM 282. Please Save Our Trees! They are what make our campus as beautiful as it already is! 7/19/2008 4:13:49 PM 283. Why? Really now, there is NO reason to remove healthy and safe trees. I don't care how many you plan to re-plant, nor that the trunks will be 2"-4" in diameter, that is still a far cry from what is existing. I care about the campus looking like crap for the next 30-40 years. Did anyone stop to think about how good those large TALL trees look around Avery? Probably not. Devin Jeffers, 7/19/2008 4:09:23 PM 284. Cutting down trees makes me a Sad Panda. Hey, WSU. If you want to fix something, then maybe you should finally create some decent parking on campus. Don't destroy the few trees we have... Eric Jacobson 7/19/2008 3:36:32 PM 285. Unconscionable As an undergraduate, the mature trees in front of Avery Hall were an important learning resource. Clear cutting specimen trees across the university is a serious assault against core horticulture/landscape architecture curriculum. SAVE THE TREES! Kyle Port, BS Environmental Horticulture 1996 7/19/2008 3:10:48 PM 286. I believe the entire WSU campus is considered the "WSU Arboretum". If that is the case, why do the planners want to return WSU to the look of 100+ years ago -- all new brick buildings and no trees? Please leave the big trees intact. The campus would be very unattractive without them. Cynthia & Howard Hosick 7/19/2008 2:45:30 PM 287. I love trees dont do it 7/19/2008 2:43:06 PM 288. Save the Trees! The trees are make our campus so beautiful, why on earth would you want to take that away? Kathy Damskov 7/19/2008 2:01:52 PM 289. Save the trees Don't cut them down! Andrew DeFlorio, Architecture Student 7/19/2008 1:34:18 PM 290. Now why would we need to do that??? The trees are fine. What little shade there is available on campus needs to be maintained, not shunk. Do us all a favor and leave them alone. Jo Mahoney 7/19/2008 1:07:54 PM 291. Kirby Merrill Kelley 7/19/2008 12:55:15 PM 292. Don't cut the trees Trees are vital to keeping the air cool and clean. Please find some cement to cut up, if you must cut. Wendy Stevens 7/19/2008 12:06:53 PM 293. how is this supposed to help our image? the trees are one of the reasons i was drawn to come to this campus, i'm sure a lot of others can say the same. why cut down trees unless they are a danger to pedestrians (i.e. rotten or damaged to where they are falling down) i dont see how cutting down beautiful adult trees and putting in little saplings is going to improve the looks, half of the smaller trees are just going to get destroyed from winter's destructions (i.e. people tromping over stuff). this should have been thought about more carefully . 7/19/2008 12:06:10 PM 294. Old trees are irreplaceable Those who intend to cut these trees down say that they will replace these trees. But they cannot be replaced in our lifetimes. The trees are vital for our environment, our quality of life, and our public image. Don't cut them down! Hilary Hawley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of English 7/19/2008 11:26:22 AM 295. Save our trees!!! Please keep our beautiful trees! Pullman only has so many wonderful trees and to cut some down would be very sad indeed. Our students need shady trees to enjoy/study/relax under, please don't take that away from them. Gwendolyn (Bielski) Martindale-Alumni 2005 7/19/2008 11:21:44 AM 296. A LIL MORE BOOTY TO PUT BEAUTY BACK IN BEAUTIFICAITON. please:) These old beautiful trees are what soften our existing buildings and will make the introduction of new ones more seamless. These trees are also a legacy and (perhaps subconsciously) a major selling point to prospective students, especially those from the west side who just drove half a day through the palouse. Redesign at this stage will be costly, but tis a shame nonetheless. Perhaps there is a way to excavate and replant some of them and make minor adjustments where possible? Student of Architecture 7/19/2008 11:06:07 AM 297. WSUs (DE)beautification Project The trees on campus create an atmosphere lacking thoroughout this area; one of living beauty and natural comfort. Perhaps we should consider protecting nature rather than destroying it. And perhaps WSU should consider the multiplicity of ways this decision contradicts the principles on which this university is founded. Sara Baker, Class of 2010 7/19/2008 10:51:54 AM 298. Cement is NOT beautiful In an area with so few trees as is, I can't believe the school would cut down the few that remain, those great old trees which provide so much enjoyment to us as students. I often sit on the lawn outside Avery and enjoy my lunch or study, because of the shade and birds. Furthermore, as a student who takes out a lot of loans to pay for school, I am quite unhappy that my tuition money is contributing to this "beautification" project. Molly, nursing undergrad 7/19/2008 10:30:56 AM 299. Save the Trees! I'm not impressed by this new campus "beautification" move. How about we leave the trees and find something else to remove for aesthetic reasons? A gigantic blue heart, perhaps? C. M., Alumni, class of 2006 7/19/2008 9:59:25 AM 300. WSU deforestation project Trees are needed for beauty. Let WSU be an example for working with nature instead of against it. James Bonner 7/19/2008 3:24:54 AM 301. Save 'em! who doesn't love trees??? it's what makes Washington the most beautiful, green state in the nation. Andrew Whitson 7/19/2008 12:05:50 AM 302. This is crazy Why cut down the trees?? Are they trying to make Pullman even MORE brown and ugly?? Maggie Rogers, Alumni 7/18/2008 11:29:40 PM 303. please dont cut any trees of campus Please dont cut any trees in the campus ! nancy 7/18/2008 10:43:30 PM 304. Save the Trees! It's already one of the most beautiful places on campus. no further "beautification" is needed! Angry English Major 7/18/2008 9:58:48 PM 305. WSU's Trees make it a better Campus These trees are beautiful, living parts of a great university, just as green shady campuses have always been. Please preserve and protect WSU's mature trees. Dave Stiles 7/18/2008 9:50:27 PM 306. Save the trees Nate (Alumni) 7/18/2008 9:35:29 PM 307. Please save the WSU trees Dear WSU, Please reconsider removing the trees around Avery. As a recent graduate of WSU, I still hold very fond memories of the beautiful trees in front of that building, and it would be a shame to see them removed. These trees provided much needed shade in the summer, and places to meet and hang out with friends during the school year. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Rachel Neff Ms. Rachel Neff, graduate student UC Riverside Hispanic Studies 7/18/2008 9:23:21 PM 308. Trees! Save our trees! For it will take many years to gain back what beauty will be lost. I plead you to stop cutting down our trees. I heard part of the reason for this project was to make an area more "pedestrian friendly" well when was the last time you saw someone walking to class randomly run into a tree because it was there. I think people are able to move around the trees so that way we will not have to cut them down. Thank you! Jessica Cantibury 7/18/2008 8:38:34 PM 309. Save the Trees We need our trees for shade and for the squirrels. Allison Brisbois 7/18/2008 7:47:21 PM 310. Unnecessary and foolish I feel that this area of campus is fine just the way it is and doesn't require "beautification". Keep in mind, this comes from the same organization that put that stupid median in on Stadium Way. James Harper, 2007 Alumni 7/18/2008 7:05:17 PM 311. Amanda Lee 7/18/2008 6:46:26 PM 312. Pullman Resident 7/18/2008 6:30:31 PM 313. We need the trees!! The trees are beautiful and provide shade!! 7/18/2008 6:29:34 PM 314. SAVE the TREES! If the University chooses to cut down the trees, we will lose so much of the natural beauty on campus. The Palouse is already so desolate; if we cut down these trees, WSU will begin to look like every other large university- urbanized and barren. The trees add so much character to the school, and are one of the most beautifl things about the campus. How can chopping them down for "beautification" purposes be justified at ALL? Erin Manning, Undergraduate Student 7/18/2008 6:17:30 PM 315. Why get rid of them? What is with floyd and his need to mow down everything on campus, first the original vet building (Disablity annex), Then Gannon- Golds (apprently we need more apartment like dorms) and now cut down a bunch of trees for this. i hope they didnt cut down the one that was planted by the first groudskeeper already. Can you please leave something green for me to come back to next year? Tyler Lamb 7/18/2008 6:12:46 PM 316. Disappointed in our Administration Why do you show so little concern for your students? Josh Williams 7/18/2008 5:30:10 PM 317. Save Trees, Save Earth!!! This is not about a region, state or country this is about EARTH. We need these trees more than anything else. Assaulting these trees is similar to snatching the oxygen mask away from the person. Please please do NOT take this natural oxygen mask away from us. Today the need is to plant more and more trees and not to bring them down. If an educational institution like WSU will KILL trees what example it is setting up??? Pawan, Grad Student, EECS 7/18/2008 4:25:44 PM 318. Ignoring the other environmentally unfriendly logical anomalies, if one of the ideas of the construction projects is to beautify our campus (in addition to improving the facilities, that is), cutting out the natural greenery is not only an unnecessary cost but counterproductive one as well. Susan Scott 7/18/2008 4:04:08 PM 319. Please save the trees!! The trees around campus add to the beauty of WSU! It takes years to grow these beautiful trees...Please don't fell them! Department of Computer Science 7/18/2008 3:25:48 PM 320. Please don't cut down the trees! Meg Weber, Class of 1998 7/18/2008 3:10:14 PM 321. recent alumni I want to come back to WSU campus and find the trees exactly the way I left them. SAVE THE TREES! 7/18/2008 3:06:17 PM 322. Lisa S. 7/18/2008 3:04:45 PM 323. Save the trees Why do you want to cut down the trees...our campus looks pretty because of them..Please don't cut down the trees 7/18/2008 2:51:27 PM 324. I'm Appalled I am a student considering Graduate School at WSU and I am not impressed by this at all. Anonymous 7/18/2008 1:52:14 PM 325. We need all the trees we can get! Why cut down the few trees we do have on campus? The WSU campus is an oasis of trees in a vast landscape of wheat fields. 7/18/2008 1:36:43 PM 326. Things To Miss Of the three things I miss while living in the Palouse, Trees rank #1. Please don't cut them down... every one of those trees is beautiful, healthy, and a great boon to our campus. Kenneth Webb, Steampunk Pirate, Department of Fine Arts 7/18/2008 1:34:22 PM 327. Time to hear us! It is the majority who want to save the trees. Lets make a plan to include them. I'm sure we would all sacrafice a few feet of sidewalk for the existence of these well lived trees! M. Wagner 7/18/2008 1:33:01 PM 328. Don't cut down trees Keep the trees~! Alison Wesockes - grad student 7/18/2008 12:59:02 PM 329. Trees Should Be Left Alone As an English student who lived in Stevens Hall, it is sad to think those trees could be cut and replaced with saplings. My memories of WSU are tied to the scenery of the English department, and I have lovingly painted those trees for my Fine Arts classes. The trees make WSU more distinguished as a university and add to the feeling of history and accreditation, it would be shameful and wrong to take them out for sidewalk. Kefi Lewis Andersen, Alumni 7/18/2008 12:51:20 PM 330. Please don't cut down the trees They give the campus so much more character. Katie 7/18/2008 12:50:42 PM 331. Do, do save the trees! So - I send money to a charity to plant a tree and Wazzu destroys trees! Wake up and get with the big picture. Jo Washburn, Sport Management (retired) 7/18/2008 12:49:16 PM 332. Do you know how HOT it gets in the summer?! seriously, what are you going to put there that could be more amazing than gorgeous trees??? feed the birds, save the trees. Amelia Warga 7/18/2008 12:48:26 PM 333. Page Russell 7/18/2008 12:36:25 PM 334.  Alumni Cutting trees down is not cool at all. The trees are apart of WSU's history. Save them, work around them. Adam Tardiff 7/18/2008 12:31:40 PM 335. Think before you cut. Old trees are hard to replace. Let's step back and take another look. Richard Backes 7/18/2008 12:20:13 PM 336. Save the trees! Leave the trees! You can't replace the natural beauty of the old trees on campus! 7/18/2008 12:17:41 PM 337. Trees Should Be Left Alone Many of my most cherished memories of Pullman are of walking under the trees on my way to my English classes. One reason I have continued to visit is to see those places again, and think of the great times I have had at WSU. Please keep the trees. Kefi Lewis Andersen, Alumni 7/18/2008 12:10:27 PM 338. Professor Emeritus How typical that architects and campus planners would view mature and healthy trees as being "expendable". If a small scenic stream flowed by this area, they would no doubt cover it up with concrete. Are we so short-sighted that we can't plan our campus around these pre-existing natural assets. I only wish such stately mature trees currently surrounded my WSU campus building......save them! Ken D. Duft, School of Economic Sciences 7/18/2008 12:08:32 PM 339. Bernadette Ordos 7/18/2008 12:06:29 PM 340. SAVE THE TREES I for one believe that natural growth is far more beautiful than prepostioned flower beds. 7/18/2008 12:03:09 PM 341. "World class face to face" How can we even say that is what our University is for when you are ignoring our voices? I fear that Dr. Floyd may not understand what it is to be a Cougar. While taking office there were promises of change and transparancy, yet the only change I have seen in construction of the new and destruction of the old. Transparent? Just this summer Dr. Floyd and him administration BLINDSIDED us by announcing it will be cutting the number of classes and major offered. Now it again blindsided us by cutting our trees. I saw a lot of potiential in your Dr. Floyd...please prove me wrong. A confused student 7/18/2008 12:02:16 PM 342. More than worth the trouble... I love to sit under the trees not only under Avery and around campus when it is hot out and shade is needed. My parents went to WSU in 1970 through 1975 and they remember the trees. If the CPD says that it does not work for their plan to save those trees then they are not being creative and resourceful enough. It is more than worth the trouble to edit the beautification plan to save these trees. As said before by others, these trees mean history for our campus and it will take decades for new trees to grow as tall and beautiful as these ones! Witney Lonseth, Animal Science & Spanish Undergraduate 7/18/2008 12:01:18 PM 343. DONT! The hill on hello walk is gorgeous bc of the trees! Chad Nagel 7/18/2008 11:54:47 AM 344. What are you thinking?! The trees are what make the campus pretty! The brick buildings alone would look bare and ugly! Marissa Lenting 7/18/2008 11:53:20 AM 345. Save the trees! Save the trees! 7/18/2008 11:48:51 AM 346. We love trees! I'm from the western part of Washington and grew up in the middle of a Weyerhaeuser forest preserve. The trees on our campus make me feel at home. I will truly miss them. Lee Reeves 7/18/2008 11:44:16 AM 347. Please Leave the Trees! Big trees are beautiful, and produce oxygen for us to breath, and shade for us, as well. Please let everyone enjoy them. They have worked hard and it has taken a lot of time for them to grow this big. 7/18/2008 11:42:07 AM 348. L2/Architect I've got an idea...hire an Architect that doesn't suck and can work around our Schools natural environment! How would you feel if you were one of the Alumni that planted the trees???? hmmm?? Matt Miller, Senior Mechanical Engineering Student 7/18/2008 11:38:48 AM 349. What kind of 'improvements' to the area could justify this? They're talking about how the improvements to library road when it extends down to the old Bookie will be amazing but how can cutting down trees that'll take literally generations to grow back be considered anything but detrimental to the area? That grassy, shady area under those trees doesn't need any type of improvement or modification. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Mark Burgard 7/18/2008 11:38:20 AM 350. Save the trees! Unless the trees are diseased I think it would not be good to cut them down. They have always been a beautiful addition to the campus. Ray and Arlene Beale - Alumni 7/18/2008 11:23:34 AM 351. Sigh. What you're considering is appalling. Period. Many have already expressed my outrage, incredulity, about the possible fate of the trees. Just stop the damage now, please. Destroying the trees cannot possibly lead to "beautification." Isn't the area near Avery, in its historic, welcoming and nurturing state, beautiful now? What are you thinking?! Paula Elliot, Librarian Emerita 7/18/2008 11:20:57 AM 352. Save as many trees as possible and plant an idea In the past few weeks we’ve seen numerous trees cut down all over campus. During my five minute walk to Murrow each morning, I count four large stumps, and now we’ve lost two more from the front of the building. Huge, stately trees are disappearing from all over campus. I agree, we need to save as many of these “assets” as possible. In addition, I’d like to suggest that we take this opportunity to really appreciate the trees that we still have. Perhaps the trees outside of Avery could form the basis for a campus-wide initiative. I’d like to see this small grove of trees be used as a “meditation grove,” or an “inspiration grove,” or even a small memorial site with some agreed upon theme. We have a veteran’s memorial, why not a peace memorial somehow referencing Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr. etc.? There are numerous other locations on campus that could also be considered for additional commemorative groves. Maybe a site could be developed as a tribute to educational “heroes” and include numerous people like Christa McAuliffe, the first “Teacher in Space” who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Why not a Distinguished Alumnis grove highlighting people like James E. Blackwell, Phyllis Campbell, Robert D. Russ, Sherman Alexie, Gary Larson, Allen C. Wilson, Paul Allen, etc.? Instead of cutting trees, let’s incorporate them into inspirational, daily reminders of what is important in our lives and what we and our students can hope to achieve. Tom Whitacre, Associate Director, CLA General Studies and Advising Center 7/18/2008 11:20:38 AM 353. Think! Cutting down trees that are already lend so much to campus "beautification" is irresponsible and just plain doesn't make sense! Please keep our trees. Lindsey Taylor 7/18/2008 10:45:41 AM 354. WSU Research Agricultural Engineer Whoa!!! It takes years to grow a mature tree and, when properly placed as these are, they become a great asset. No reasonable person would destroy these in the name of "progress"!! 7/18/2008 10:45:04 AM 355. Keep the trees From my understanding only a few trees were cut down, the rest have university signs preventing them from being cut. I hope the construction workers are obeying the signs. I like the trees. Alexander C Steinfeld 7/18/2008 10:41:36 AM 356. Assoc. VP, WSU Foundation Please don't destroy these beautiful, old trees. Pullman has so few! Ginny Boyle 7/18/2008 10:16:18 AM 357. Save the trees Don't cut down the trees. They bring life and color to the surrounding area and are obviously loved by the majority of the students. 7/18/2008 10:07:49 AM 358. What fools, CPD. You should be ashamed, gambling it all away for your easy and convenient 7/18/2008 10:02:12 AM 359. Save our Trees! Don't cut them down! 7/18/2008 9:37:51 AM 360. No, don't cut them down. We love them. Anonymous 7/18/2008 8:55:21 AM 361. The trees must be saved The trees are an essential element to the beauty of the campus where I taught for 32 years. It seems illogical that a thoughtful and innovative design could not be developed that included the Avery hall trees. Clayton Crowe, Professor Emeritus, Mechamical Engineering 7/18/2008 7:53:15 AM 362. Save Trees Growing up in Pullman the large mature trees have been a staple of the WSU campus near Avery Hall at least since the early 70's -- I would hate to think that the campus planning is so short of ideas that expansion is only possible by losing them. Give the planners some limitations -- don't cut the trees -- and let them get creative with solutions leaving the double-speak to the classroom discussions of Orwell. Alec Hammond (Pullman Resident) 7/18/2008 7:35:08 AM 363. Save the Trees Don't cut down the trees, if anything you should be planting more. They make our campus even more beautiful than it already is. Erin Gipe, Alumni 7/18/2008 7:22:12 AM 364. I love breathing They better be there when I return Alvin D. Reeder, Mil Sci Alumni 7/18/2008 2:25:37 AM 365. Don't Kill our Trees!!! A huge part of the campus experience requires the ability of students to enjoy the environment. Unfortunately, if you cut that down we won't have that experience. And most importantly the generations after us. Please don't take away the simpler things along with our money! 7/18/2008 2:22:14 AM 366. HISTORY OF THE AVERY GROVE From early 1973 when Avery Hall first opened until very recently, it was my good fortune to have my office in room 345, with its north window looking directly out into the little grove of beautiful, old trees now scheduled for the ax. It is indeed a moment for reflection! Very likely unknown to WSU administrators and facility planners today (as well as to many protestors) are the facts concerning the site selection for Avery. When planning for the new English building began in the late '60s, the role of the Department's building committee, capably chaired by Professor Milton Petersen, was extremely important. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that every significant detail of the project—site and design, office size, linear feet of bookshelf space, the furniture to be used in the Bundy Reading Room—was thoughtfully considered and approved or rejected by this committee. On two major points, the Department and its building committee were uncompromising: our new home was to be located close to Holland library; it was to be situated so as not to destroy, injure or impair the growth of the mature trees flourishing near the (eventual) preferred location next to Bryan Hall. On the latter point there was fundamental agreement between the architect, the WSU administration, and the Department. In contrast to the attitudes of today's facility planners, these trees were regarded as major enhancements to the site, a confirmation that the building location was right and proper. They were not perceived as the kind of expensive and anachronistic nuisances that complicate the plans and aesthetic systems of today's designers of parking lots, strip malls, stadium expansions, golf courses, and pedestrian walkways on the WSU campus. "Bush League, Face to Face"! Stanton J. Linden, Professor Emeritus of English, WSU 7/18/2008 2:21:22 AM 367. Save Them. The trees are what add to Pullman's beauty. Ryan Horlen 7/18/2008 2:18:31 AM 368. Save the Trees Please I love these trees, I used to sit under them and read before class, so please don't take them down. It would be an unnecessary waste and exertion of energy just to take them down. Cheri Miranda 7/18/2008 2:12:51 AM 369. Help join our fight to save the trees We are trying to save the trees at the University of Missouri campus as well. Thanks 7/18/2008 1:59:51 AM 370. Seriously guys stop We should print up flyers and give out brochures about them cutting the trees down. 7/18/2008 1:52:09 AM 371. Save the trees In old growth trees, aesthetics and practical value come together. Todd Butler, Assistant Professor, English 7/18/2008 1:26:49 AM 372. SAVE THE TREES PLEASE STOP TEARING down our trees! they make our campus so beautiful! Mikaela Dubin (Kinesiology) 7/18/2008 1:09:42 AM 373. SAVE THE TREES Not only are they cutting down the beautiful trees, but they are doing it behind our backs, and not thinking in the long run. Mikaela Dubin (Kinesiology) 7/18/2008 1:09:02 AM 374. Don't cut the down the trees Keep the trees here! 7/18/2008 12:55:45 AM 375. A Direction of Discord You may be the few, but we are the many. Let me ask you, how long will it be until the world is paved? A concrete lawn is not an asset despite the "cleanliness," the "modern feel" of hard cut edges and block benches like what lies between Todd and Abelson. You, trustees. You, board of Regents. You should listen to us, the inhabitants. You may believe that this new industrious and sterile campus is what people are looking for, but who would choose a world without character? Beware, now, beware of the future that you hold. For, indeed, you have a lot of sway, so choose with care what you do. Soon you will be left with your concrete city, your modern metropolis, to bake in the heat with nothing but empty seats to fill your school. Students! Alumni! The days of our school are slipping away fast. We have been handed a sift in which to recapture this place that was and is our home. “Progression” should not mean “demolition”! Here we are, faced with a decision NOW. We have a voice! Remember that it only takes one person, one word to change the minds of many! Will we speak? Rebecca Harder, Hopeful, Dept. of the Planet 7/18/2008 12:53:54 AM 376. former Director, Office of International Students and Scholars The trees are not only important to off set energy costs, they add greatly to the character of the campus. It is very sad to think they will be cut down. It is history and character that is being destroyed. Mary Furnari, formerly with International Programs 7/18/2008 12:52:19 AM 377. Beautification is planting more, not removing! They are wondrous entities on our campus and to remove them would be harmful to our campus. They provide shade, a cooler atmosphere, a natural site and with so many areas clear-cutting trees and forests in the world, the last thing we should be doing is cutting them down. We should instead plant many more for generations to come. There are too many reasons to mention to save the trees; but for all intensive purposes, preserve them! Garren 7/18/2008 12:49:22 AM 378. Stop this nonsense! Enough of this. WSU has wastefully cleared away too many tree in the last year. It stops here. Don't cut these trees down. Sandy Morrison, Artist 7/18/2008 12:35:23 AM 379. Save the trees! Don't cut down these trees! Peter Long 7/18/2008 12:17:48 AM 380. Ryan King 7/18/2008 12:11:08 AM 381. Why? I love the trees. Keep them. Please. There's already too few trees on campus, in my opinion. The areas with the most trees are by far the most beautiful. Rhiannon Isaacson-Booker, Student 7/18/2008 12:08:05 AM 382. Please save the trees! Please save the trees! They are beautiful and more inviting than younger trees. I hope everyone can enjoy these trees. Cherise Morton 7/18/2008 12:05:51 AM 383. Let them be. The trees are an asset to the campus and cutting them down would be both foolish and tragic. Not only are the trees aesthetically pleasing but many provide much-needed shade during the hot summer days. Additionally, many of us students are from the west side of the state and the trees are one of the few landscape features on campus that make us feel at home. I'm sorry but I find no beauty in rolling hills of dirt and wheat. Concrete and brick hold no appeal either. I need my trees. Benjamin Black, Senior in psychology and Orientation Counselor with NSP 7/18/2008 12:04:02 AM 384. Malinda Childers 7/17/2008 11:59:43 PM 385. Save the trees! Save the trees! Paul E. Zimmerman 7/17/2008 11:58:58 PM 386. Save the trees There aren't really that many mature trees on campus. Losing these would be a tragedy. I really can't get behind cutting down healthy, mature trees save at utmost need, which has not been demonstrated here. Ryan Hare, Assistant Professor, School of Music 7/17/2008 11:46:55 PM 387. For the Respect of Natural Beauty There seems to be no beauty in removing that which is natural and already beautiful in itself. These trees are part of the ambiance and atmosphere that makes this particular part of campus so comfortable and in the same right, comforting. Pullman doesn't have enough trees as it is and living in a concrete fortress sounds equally displeasing. I urge you to please reconsider destroying those trees! 7/17/2008 11:33:38 PM 388. Don't cut down history. These trees are a part of the charm of this campus. We need shade trees and having these trees makes campus more beautiful. Cutting them down would take away from the natural beauty that we have here. Please keep them. As an Alive counselor I know my students LOVE these trees. Many say that one thing they love about WSU, is the numerous, old, big trees. Cutting them down is not acceptable. They actually draw a lot of people into campus. Erika Schoonmaker 7/17/2008 11:30:40 PM 389. Save 'em Why destroy something that hasn't bothered anyone and actually does some good at WSU. Rachel King 7/17/2008 11:13:11 PM 390. Please leave the trees! It's not that hard to walk, the trees are WSU living history! Susan Speicher, Student, Music Major 7/17/2008 11:09:06 PM 391. Please... Please leave the trees. Our school has been here for over 100 years. The trees that live in that part of our campus are part of that tradition, please do not remove the natural beauty that can only come with years of tree growth. Daniel Antal 7/17/2008 11:02:34 PM 392. Trees Keep the trees! Rabble rabble rabble! Allen P, Alumni 7/17/2008 10:54:48 PM 393. Please don't cut them down. Cutting down these trees is like cutting down WSU's history! Elliot Davenport 7/17/2008 10:53:30 PM 394. Save our trees! Please save our trees! What's the point of cutting them down and replacing them new, younger trees? Just leave them as they are! Brittany Bailey, Alive! Orientation Counselor 7/17/2008 10:27:58 PM 395. Save the trees Old trees are beautiful. If you want to make the campus more beautiful, leave them there. Lizabeth Karst 7/17/2008 10:20:43 PM 396. Please leave the trees Please 7/17/2008 10:14:46 PM 397. Are you serious? These trees add to the beauty that is the WSU campus, and if you cut down these trees then WSU will just be a bunch of buildings on a hill with no flair...SAVE THE TREES! Logan Fink, Undergrad, Broadcast Productions 7/17/2008 10:07:55 PM 398. Trees are good Trees are very important. They help with the removal of Carbon emissions, and atleast we can do something to help with the recycling. Plus it's too hot not to have trees for shade, so really it was just be stupid to remove the trees. When I was there I never heard of anywhere on campus to not be pedestrian-friendly Travis Burnett, Graduated 07', Department of Natural Resource Sciences 7/17/2008 9:55:40 PM 399. Save the beauty of WSU The trees on campus make it such an enjoyable place; shade from the sun, protection from the rain/ snow and the perfect wind blocker. The trees are my favorite part of the WSU campus! I would be devastated to see my memories of WSU cut down and turned into a treeless desert. Patricia Schlachter 7/17/2008 9:25:34 PM 400. Do not cut the trees Mark McNabb, Research Associate, VCAPP 7/17/2008 9:16:23 PM 401. Keep the trees Sylvie Cloutier, Research Assistant Professor, VCAPP 7/17/2008 9:15:21 PM 402. The purpose of this petition - ADA Accessiblity The purpose of this petition is to provide a forum for people who support the effort to not remove trees. Comments that are not in support of that effort, or comments that provide factually inaccurate information, are removed from the list. This is especially the case when people do not sign their names. We encourage persons who want to petition to support removal of the trees to find their own forum -- not this one -- to support removal. As a disabled person, I will state that the access now is ADA compliant -- and that it is wrong for WSU to try to use the excuse of improving things for the disabled to justify its plans. This is not a question of the disabled versus the trees. It is possible to have disabled access and the trees. I have filed a complaint with CHR about this matter. So any posting that tries to express that this is a matter of ADA compliance and that tries to imply that this must be done to help the disabled is presenting inaccurate information. Finally, I would like to point out I am not the moderator of this list. Elizabeth Siler, Clinical Assistant Professor English 7/17/2008 9:10:15 PM 403. save the trees if anything we need more, not less trees! Kelsey Oakes 7/17/2008 9:08:21 PM 404. What? How? Why? How is cutting down trees 'beautification?' Usually that means adding trees! This is an outrage! All current students and Pullman residence should resiste this! Molly Richter, WSU Alum, Natural Resource Science 7/17/2008 9:08:14 PM 405. Kaylie Peebles 7/17/2008 9:07:41 PM 406. Save at least some mature trees Trees should be selectively removed, i.e., damaged trees or those with rot should be removed for safety. The wholesale removal of all old trees is not good management. Donald C. Orlich, Prof. Emeritus, SMEEC 7/17/2008 9:04:36 PM 407. Save the Trees The trees on WSU's campus help to add character in a way that asphalt and construction never will. Leave them standing. Joe Downes 7/17/2008 8:54:18 PM 408. Sara Jinks, Pullman native 7/17/2008 8:43:59 PM 409. Please keep Avery Forest I was a graduate student in English when Avery Hall was built, and was impressed that so much care was taken to ensure that the construction didn't harm the trees. The grounds around Avery are still quite beautiful. Is the new capital plan so much more attractive that it needs to be imposed on an unwilling family of once and future Cougars? Richard Fulton, PhD (English) 1975; Vice Provost, Windward Community College 7/17/2008 8:38:00 PM 410. TREES!!! The old trees and the animals that make those treees home are one of