Don't Let Developers Do Away With Our Best Natural Resource

Don't let developers do away with our best natural resource

Atlanta has no river front, no ocean, no mountains. The best natural resource going for us are the trees. We have to quit sacrificing them on the altar of developers for the sake of progress.

Since I moved back to Atlanta and into the Northlake area, I have seen acres and acres of residential trees clear cut and wiped clean with only a few token pitiful stragglers on the edges.

The developers are in business to make money. They have to be. Most, but not all, of them think the cost of saving trees is not worth the expense.

It's a lot easier for them to bulldoze everything and plant a few trees. It will only take 20 or 30 years to fill in. They leave when the homes are sold. New buyers are clueless as to what had been there.

Atlanta is rapidly being turned into a wasteland by people who want to turn a profit as cheaply as possible. They think that we don't care. We need to let them know that we do. Our trees are the best things Atlanta has going for it. Don't bulldoze them.