Chainsaw Fight

We walked down to Occidental Square for our Monday lunch field trip and unfortnunately didn't see much. Supposedly the cutting has begun in Pioneer Square and trees are being felled, but the area lacked any chainsaw buzz or shouted "tim-berrrrrrr"s around noon. We didn't stick around to gawk, though, so maybe they were between trees. A nice little pile of fresh firewood was sitting around.

The P-I is reporting that there were a dozen or so spectators on hand earlier this morning, but we saw easily fifteen people watching nothing.

From the P-I:

City Councilman Nick Licata had asked the Seattle parks department to hold off on plans to remove 17 trees until a court decides an appeal to delay the project.

Though many in the neighborhood support the work, the plan attracted critics. A lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court claimed the city cannot do the work without conducting an environmental analysis.