Over the past few months, someone has been stealing the support stakes and protective mesh from around trees in The Tenderloin neighborhood. See previous post “Oh, the Humani-tree“. The last act of vandalism took place on Earth Day!
The North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, and residents of The Book Concern Building have been working with the police at the Tenderloin Station to solve this heinous crime.
Police reports were filed, and the police have been on the lookout for the tree bandit — a stake-out, if you will.
Crime doesn’t pay folks — the police have made an arrest, and 30 of the tree stakes have been recovered!
The stakes will be returned, and residents in the neighborhood will work to identify sites that have been vandalized, and repair the damage — volunteers?
A great victory for the hard working activists in The Tenderloin, and people of color. In this case, green.
In other green news — Mr. Pickles has been returned!
Filed under: Activism, Good Urban Experience, SF Tenderloin, Tenderloin | Tagged: Book Concern Building, District 6, District Six, Friends of the Urban Forest, livinintheloin, Mr. Pickles, North of Market Tenderloin Community Benefit District, The Tenderloin, Trees in The Tenderloin
awesome!! so are we getting some of those ‘hot’ stakes at the BCB? That little tree has been hanging on bravely and deserves some love. Did the cops say where they found the stakes—did they have to dismantle a hastily constructed log cabin on jones and turk?