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The ponderosa pine located in the middle of the side yard of 3038 39th Ave SW isn\u2019t just any old tree.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s more than 90 years old, stretches higher than 100 feet up in the sky and has become a favorite landmark in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The tree is also in imminent danger of being cut down \u2013 and has become the center of a heated debate.<\/p>\n
Lisa Parriott has lived across the street from what she calls \u201cthe Silent Giant\u201d for the past 24 years.<\/p>\n
She explained that the former owner of 3038 39th Ave SW sold his house last winter.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had this gorgeous tree on his property,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s perfectly straight, perfectly healthy and it frames all of our yards. We love this tree. It\u2019s precious to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parriott said that the pine has been designated an \u201cexceptional tree\u201d by the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC 25.11) and therefore protected. <\/p>\n
E. Fudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
as in PROTECT. West Seattle neighbors putting up a fight to protect ponderosa pine The ponderosa pine located in the middle of the side yard of 3038 39th Ave SW isn\u2019t just any old tree. It\u2019s more than 90 years old, stretches higher than 100 feet up in the sky and has become a favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,199,12,55,21,8],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conservation","tag-developer","tag-pacific-northwest","tag-seattle","tag-trees","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}