LOGAN – The start of removing trees on Canyon Road has started and residents who live on that road are not happy.
Logan officials have approved removing 17 trees on Canyon Road that have been there longer than the residents who live on the road.
Amy Thurman lives in Idaho but visits every other weekend to visit her son, daughter-in-law and her grandson. She and other residents on the road gathered together at one of the homes on the street and had a goodbye ceremony for the trees the day before they were scheduled to be cut down.
“It was probably about 30-35 people, talking about how long the trees have been here and saying goodbye,” said Thurman.
Thurman said it’s sad to see the trees go and, “‘the fact that a petition that we all signed over and over couldn’t save our trees.”
Thurman says she takes her grandson along this road to enjoy the trees and the feeling of nature, but now “it will change the whole feel of this area right here.”
One resident says he has lived in his house for 12 years and the reason why he bought it was because of the trees.
“The reason why we bought the house is because of the trees and the area.”
He says that he isn’t happy that they are building a ten-foot sidewalk.
“I’m not happy about having a ten-foot side walk out in front of my house.”
The resident said there was an “old guy here this morning that was standing in front of one of them trees.”
At 8:27 in the morning of November 17, Logan dispatch got a call about a protester that wouldn’t move to let the workers cut down the trees. It was said that the person was in front of the tree and yelling at the workers.
The resident says, “they called the cops and the cops got him out of here.”