HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972 08-10 Maplewood Rejects Mayor's Pleas to Lift Burning Ban on Trees DISPATCH Maplewood RejIects Mayor's Plea
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By JIM BROEDE "We should go to the 'Axdahl refused ' to Road C and Keller. feet of earthfill is ade
Staff Writer PCA," he suggested, vote for apermit for
The burning ban in "and tell them they Walsh Tree Service o Parkway. quate, he said.
the Twin Cities metro _don't know what they're dispose of trees at a Disease could landfill, hed Axdahl'sing standedfor
rew
area should be lifted, doing." y p from the burning the trees drew
landfill near County warned. support from citizens at -
Maplewood Mayor Les The mayor. says he But the mayor was the meeting.
Axdahl says, in order to has "expert advice" overruled 4-1 by the I have about 100 trees
dispose of d i s e a s e d from foresters who in- rest of the council. on my property," a
trees. sist that burying trees Councilman Don Wie_ man noted, "and I'm
At a Village Council infested by Dutch elm
dick-
meeting last week,Axd- disease "isn't the best ting alt though mayor worried like the ahl urged e x e r t i n g method." "maybe right,"the mayor ens."
dis-
"pressure" on the Pol- The disease can still g ,"pointed If they become lution Control Agency spread, he said, unless out that the "experts eased, the bill for haul
(PCA), which adopted the trees are burned, are fighting each other ing them away will be-
-
the burning regulations. preferably on site. over this." astronomical, he ex-
Some of them-claim plained.
that covering the dis- "It's doggone unreal-
eased trees with two istic when we can't
burn," he commented.
"I could burn all the
leaves on. my property
and it wouldn't cause as
much pollution 'as one
airplane flying over."