Park City’s urban forest

Five years ago, I was beginning to realize that Park City was invaded by trees getting uncontrollably too big. 

This situation has kept on getting worse, to the extent that arborists are now the new kings of the mountain, and as a profession are as ubiquitous as landscapers, painters and plumbers or HVAC tradesmen. 

In reality the problem of too many tall trees spreading and growing exponentially just like global warming, and soon we’ll become true forest dwellers.

Many trees that surround our house are now reaching 40 to 50 foot and for most homes are totally masking the mountain views. 

Blame both the landscapers and the home owners who lacked the basic imagination of seeing that 2 foot tree, placed far too close to their home would eventually explode into a giant! 

We’ll never be able to tame all these trees, many of which still keep growing and we’ll have to learn to become Tarzans which a my age, would be a stretch and very bad pun because nothing in my body wants to do this!