<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Mark, thanks for your message. I live on the Park and folks are out with their flashlights all night gathering chestnuts and I suspect the limb was broken to use to knock down more.<div><br></div><div>I’m calling the Park Service and asking they patrol the Park after nightfall. </div><div><br></div><div>Beth Peacock</div><div><br><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 19, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Mark <markrichardgrace@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">This morning someone ripped a large branch from one of the chestnut trees in the northeast corner of Lincoln Park. Doing this dramatically jeopardizes the health of the tree. It introduces opportunity for disease and accelerates its demise dramatically. It's great that people harvest the chestnuts at this time but it's not good to 'kill the goose that laid the golden egg'.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">If you are concerned about the health and maintenance of the trees and are willing to, please send an immediate email asking for an arborist from the National Park Service to come look at the trees. The NPS contacts that I have listed (hopefully still active) are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">1. Douglas Carr (e) <a href="mailto:douglas_carr@nps.gov">douglas_carr@nps.gov</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">2. Mark Adamchik (e) <a href="mailto:mark_adamchik@nps.gov">mark_adamchik@nps.gov</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">3. James Sledge (e) <a href="mailto:james_sledge@nps.gov">james_sledge@nps.gov</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Again, the chestnut trees located in the northeast corner of Lincoln Park, a federal park.</div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Mark Grace</div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br><br>Mark R. Grace<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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