Utility Tree Pruning and Removal - Facts and Fiction

Invites
you to an important meeting about the

UTILITY TREE PRUNING AND
REMOVAL – FACTS AND FICTION

WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 2, 12 NOON – 2 PM

LAGRUA
CENTER

SPEAKER:
MIKEY HIRSCHOFF, GARDEN CLUB OF NEW HAVEN

SPOKESMAN
ON TREES AND POWER

BRING A BAG
LUNCH

Please come to this important meeting to learn
about the utility tree pruning and removal and what we can do to support our
trees.  We have invited other local
organizations to encourage friends and neighbors to attend.  The more awareness we have about this issue and
how we may take appropriate action; bettering our chances to find a solution
that will protect our healthy trees from being drastically pruned or cut down
by CL&P or United Illuminating.   Collaboration is our objective.  Yes, we all need power yet we love our
trees.  Surely they can coexist.

Please refer to this website for more information:
www.gardenclubofnewhaven.org

All of the tree wardens in Stonington and Groton
will be invited.  They are certified as
having completed the training course and passed the test conducted by the Tree
Wardens Association, as now required by state law.  The Tree Wardens
Association is on record as opposing fixed utility line clearance standards for
pruning and removal of trees, a long-standing position that has been conveyed
to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

BIO:
 Mary-Michelle (Mikey) Hirschoff has served as the Spokesman on Trees and Power for
the Garden Club of New Haven since December 2011.  A graduate of Stanford
University and Yale Law School, she is a retired lawyer with substantial
experience in Connecticut municipal law, including the laws governing tree
wardens and utility tree pruning and removal.  She played an active role
in the adoption of a 1981 statute enabling towns to adopt scenic road
ordinances.  In 2013, she worked with others in the State Vegetation
Management Task Force to ensure that tree wardens retained their power to
control utility pruning and removal of trees in the public right-of-way and
that abutting property owners had the right to notice and to object to proposed
pruning and removal.