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Beacon Street with 65-year old, healthy linden.
Beacon Street with only 23% of the linden surviving.
Statistically, the City Engineer is the most frequent cause of tree decline.
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Age Large Medium Small Beacon Hill 8 years 7% 20% 73% Back Bay 13 years 22% 11% 67% South End 8 years 10% 15% 74% Total Large Med. Small Existing 1966 215 85 98 32 Existing 1976 83 39 44 New since 1966 473 66 407 Total trees on streets 1976 556 - Chart 2
Auto damage Beacon Hill 42%…… Streets are narrow and steep Back Bay 61%…… Worse on streets with stores South End 33%…… High crime area Vandalism Beacon Hill 12%…… Trees with flowers around the base rarely vandalized Back Bay 33%…… Some is truck damage of high branches South End 7%…… Although this is the high crime area, vandalism is less, except around playgrounds Stakes damaging trees Beacon Hill 84% Obviously staking is not healthful Back Bay 50% for sidewalk trees South End 66% Effects of Staking Trees Stated trees 33 trees Stakes damaging trees 27(81%) need attention Unstaked 131 trees Trees leaning 2(1.5%) need attention
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