From Lance Mellon:

“This nativism is a strange phenomenon. I see every day, next to my community garden at Mclaren Park, the devastation caused when they cut down those beautiful woods to install their native garden. It is an unforgivable act of ignorance and destruction.”

THE BEAUTY BEFORE

Beautiful trees at McLaren Park – copyright Lance Mellon

Stately beautiful tree at McLaren Park – copyright Lance Mellon

FELLED TREES AND BARE GROUND

Native garden – copyright Lance Mellon

Native garden 2 – copyright Lance Mellon

“This needs to be curtailed before all the trees are gone. The largest tree in those woods was a 100+-year-old Monterey Cypress that housed innumerable owls, crows, and a myriad of flora and fauna.”