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Tumwater weighs an emergency declaration to save its 400-year-old Garry oak

If you pass 7525 Old Highway 99 in Tumwater, you know the Davis-Meeker Garry oak. Mayor Leatta Dahlhoff was set to declare an emergency at the Nov.

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The oak is old, battered and costly to keep

400 years
approximate age of the Davis-Meeker Garry oak
30%
of its canopy lost in recent windstorms
$100,000
about, for work to keep it standing ahead of winter

Source: The Olympian

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Daily Olympiato me · Tues., Nov. 36:00 a.m.

Tumwater weighs $100,000 emergency push to save its 400-year-old oak

Plus, LOTT's $18 million Martin Way pump station upgrade in Lacey

The TLDR

  1. Tumwater's mayor was set to declare an emergency to save the 400-year-old oak
  2. LOTT plans an estimated $18 million Martin Way pump station upgrade in Lacey
  3. An apartment building with at least 31 units is going up near Watershed Park
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