Eureka Building New Trail Through Sequoia Park

Is a park pavement?
The original Glatt gift probably did not envision cars, multiple paved paths destroying or damaging redwood and other big tree roots – the very problem that led in part to the vulnerability and blowdown of many trees back around 2005.
Across W Street are a number of fenced-off baseball fields, from which the general public and open activities are prevented – ALTHOUGH they are supposed public spaces.
THIS is the problem with adding pavement, cutting down mature trees that will NOT be replaced or regrown within several lifetimes – recognize at least: beyond the lifetimes of your great grandchildren.
And even that, ONLY if a wiser society making wiser decisions, suddenly arises. For that there is LITTLE to NO precedent or evidence of probability

We humans are continuing to eat away at the tiny remaining proportion of the great forests – we have killed them for such unethical reasons as private wineries (if you have ever, as a child, climbed inside a destroyed car, wiping your finger across peculiar white streaks on the headliner, an, asking what it was, received the reply from the towing owner – “that’s brains.”

What we are contemplating when planning to pave and cut ever more to this tiny 77-acre park, given to us to PROTECT the trees and habitat, we are doing something quite analogous, drunkenly spraying all life’s real values, all thought, all concern for these other ancient lives, into our constant hard, ungiving pavement of what ‘s left.

So, what then, would be left heading down this destructive trail?
No life, no richness of relationship with that upon which we depend completely.

Redwoods, as only a few seem to know, are the best, most efficient sequestrators of atmospheric carbon on the planet, changing more of this now dangerously artificially overproduced compound back into ancient forest per acre than ANY other organism.
DO you want your world to be nothing but yourself and your machines?
Considerable psychology now points toward many, even most, of our cognitive, emotional, spiritual problems as being due to insufficient stress-reducing experience with nature and wildlife. Perhaps for most of you, especially our physical problems have been exacerbated by this dissociation and dissociative, dismissive attitude toward the other life around us, now increasingly only caged in small parks – and NONE in Eureka,, excepting only Sequoia Park.
I cannot go into either specific problems, nor that general dissociation which has led to diseases of “developed” nations, resulting from the present constant attempt to isolate ourselves. Those with autoimmune disease, , as well as syndromes and diseases that result in increased immunodeficiencies, may have come upon the correlations and consequent prescriptions of exposure to what was past normal nature, as not merely palliative, but reversal and cure.

Again, I cannot cite the immense research literature in a comment here – you will EACH have to explore it, from reduction of psychosocial problems -including even violence, to the soulless hyperactive destructive “development” that brings no relief – only some symbolic social wealth to a few, such as those who plan such paving and construction, through such eliminating and extinguishing nature and life itself.

Take back part of the open sunny fields now closed to all use but baseball; THERE build tiny tot playgrounds, where it remains warmer for most seasons.
In THIS way, you can more usefully add to open usage of our public spaces – NOT by disputing and arrogating the last of nature, whose diverse efflorescence has yet MORE to teach ALL of us.