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Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 6, 2002. The former most beautiful California Black Walnut Tree on the Red Car Property, that we've followed for 16 years, is first big tree behind the encroached chain link fence, on the left side of the photo. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 9, 2012. This shot is wider and shot from further away. The same tree is behind the fence on the left. In 2012, the leaves of the protected native Black Walnuts were just starting to turn yellow before dropping their leaves for winter. Yet the big healthy beautiful tree we've followed for so long, was still a deep dark green. It was always one of the to last drop its leaves.
The photo above shows an environment with lots of Black Walnut Trees of varying ages from saplings to mature trees. The closest Black Walnut on the left (the young tree in the foreground) was already over 6 feet tall. There were also Coast Live Oaks of varying ages, Coffeeberries, Blue Elderberries as well as non native species. It was a rich and varied ecosystem.
Photo: Gary Vlahakis, November 6, 2016. The now dead looking tree on the left is the former most beautiful Black Walnut on the Red Car Property. The developer of the Riverside Drive 14-lot development below the Red Car Property butchered all the fresh growth on the tree in September. He also claimed to be watering the trees. (However the water lines appear to be for dust control.)
The same developer erected the fence across the Red Car Property that's become a magnet for graffiti vandals. Thanks for making our neighborhood a better place to live.
Related: Why Trees Matter
