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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Tree Update (4/2/14)

From Austin Heritage Tree Foundation Site:

"With the community's help, we have reached the $20K fund raising goal to transplant the historical heritage live oak at the SE corner of William Cannon Dr. and SH 290 at Oak Hill! However, there are new unexpected expenses for traffic control at William Cannon Dr. We are waiting on bids from contractors to determine the amount of additional fund raising that we will need. We can't start the transplanting work until the traffic control issues are resolved and the AT&T utilities by the tree are abandoned. The new deadline to start the tree transplanting work may be March 31st and may slide a week or so. Please, continue to donate. Any surplus will go to the post care (irrigation, certified arborist, tree heath care, fertilization, soil aeration, pest control) for 5 years for this tree. There's time for company matching donations. The tree fund will remain open until the tree is transplanted and that will take 3-4 weeks from starting date."

http://www.austinheritagetreefoundation.com/

Here is also an article on the tree and the challenges of its relocation:

http://kut.org/post/why-its-so-damn-hard-move-taco-bell-tree



Michael Fossum, Austin Heritage Tree Foundation, in front of the "Taco Bell" tree. www.kut.org