Residents hope to save 250-year-old tree from being cut down

Residents hope to save 250-year-old tree from being cut down

By Demetrios Sanders Click here for updates on this story     STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan (WXYZ) — Some residents in Sterling Heights are hoping to save a centuries-old tree from being chopped down in favor of housing. On Van Dyke Avenue just south of Canal Road in Sterling Heights, you can find a field with several towering trees. One tree that especially catches the eye of residents like Emily Young is an 88-foot-tall chinquapin oak that’s esti…

Sterling Heights residents hope to save 250-year-old tree from being cut down

Some residents in Sterling Heights are hoping to save a centuries-old tree from being chopped down in favor of housing.

We are about to lose a huge and historic white creek located on the edge of Luchesse Avenue, which connects the E-53 route with the city of Villa Allende.It is only a tree.But it is much more than that.And we are in time to save it.The company Caminos de la Sierras, which depends on the Government of the Province, intends to bring it down to widen that avenue.The neighbors are in favor of the work; we only ask that this grandfather tree (estimat…