Quick grassroots action saves Nashville cherry trees from NFL ax! Score one for activists!

[Tanuki]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/nfl-backtracks-on-plan-to-chop-down-trees-for-draft-stage-210027678.html

"The NFL was planning to cut down 21 cherry trees in downtown Nashville to build a temporary stage for the NFL draft, but public outcry has led to a change of plans.

Following a Change.org petition that gained nearly 60,000 signatures in three days, Nashville mayor David Briley announced on Saturday that the trees would not be cut down on Monday as planned and would be replanted at a later date.


After hearing the public response over the planned cutting of 21 of the 68 ornamental cherry trees at Riverfront Park,” Briley said over Twitter, “I informed the NFL and Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. (NCVC) that they will have to remove them intact and replant them in our city.”

The NFL draft will take place in Nashville for the first time on April 25-27 and will be held in lower Broadway near the Cumberland River. The trees needed to be removed to accommodate all the structures the league wanted, although many Nashville residents cried foul at the removal of the trees.

For one, the annual Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on April 13, and it is a bad look for the league to cut down nearly a third of the trees at Riverfront Park shortly before the festival."...(more)

[mr_lebowski]

1. What, there's just no other place in the city of Nashville ... to have the ceremony?

And all that was accomplished is that trees are going to be moved instead of killed? I wonder how many won't survive the move ...

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Hey, you have to have priorities, right? What could be more important than football?

[Karadeniz]

2. TEMPORARY stage....too egocentric for words.

[CatMor]

4. Why would you even consider removing ...

beautiful cherry trees for a temporary stage for the NFL draft. What's wrong with holding it in a convention center.
It is ridiculous any official in Nashville even considered it.

[sdfernando]

5. This is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard!

Hasn't the NFL heard of Nissan Stadium? Why don't they use the place that is specifically made for that instead of cutting down trees for a temporary stage? WTF???

[zipplewrath]

6. Trees are gonna die

Transplanting mature trees ain't easy. Cherry trees also aren't the "heartiest" of trees. They'd best get themselves one really good arborist.

[Sherman A1]

7. Stupid

Just Stupid!

[CrispyQ]

8. That the league or the city would even consider this is insane. -nt