Indycar (back) to belle isle in 2011?

[nigelred5]

You don't cut them down.

[Bob Riebe]

You don't cut them down.

Evergreens are moved easier than deciduous, because of the shallow roots.
Belle Isle is not a evergreen forest.
Deciduous trees are extremely finicky.
Balled young trees have high death rate.

I have worked with transplanted large trees.

[nigelred5]

In additon to something in the range of 50 mature cypress, cedar, white pines and silver maples, we moved around 25 large Oak trees less than a year ago at the new facility. All are doing fine this spring.

I moved a dogwood my grandfather planted next to my house 50 years ago 10 feet. It's just fine.
You know it can be done. It's all in the quality of the arborist and the size of the tree spade being used. $$ makes it happen.

Again,this is all academic, as none of it will happen.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Belle Isle is like Detroit. It has seen better days, and I hope the people in Detroit have better ideas than putting Indycars back on Belle Isle.