I'll repost a comment I made a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156934 > I know a few arbor

I'll repost a comment I made a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156934 > I know a few arborists. This is generally the cycle: > 1. There is a tree problem. > 2. Muni orders some sort of study after the problem has become unassailable. > 3. Arborist performs a study, finds lack of naturalized species, lack of diversity, lack of appropriately spaced trees. > 4. Muni throws their hands up in the air because money and keeps doing the wrong things.