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Council allocates $55,000 for immediate mitigation and monitoring of Davis Meeker Garry Oak
Summary
Council adopted a resolution authorizing initial mitigation and monitoring of the historic Davis Meeker Garry Oak following a level-3 risk assessment; the city will fund pruning, cabling, root-zone work and monitoring and return with longer-term maintenance recommendations.
The Tumwater City Council on April 15 adopted Resolution R2025-009 to authorize initial mitigation and monitoring work on the Davis Meeker Garry Oak, a landmark tree that city consultants assessed as posing variable failure risk to public targets.
Staff presented recommendations from a level-3 tree risk assessment by Trodd Prager & Associates. The consultant’s preferred package (identified in the report as “Option B”) combines targeted reduction pruning to lower the risk of branch or whole-stem failure, supplemental structural support and cabling (with a priority on the southeast stem that overhangs Old Highway 99), root-zone management…
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