(C) 2026 Luke T. Bush
PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY - 08/01/26
Gone. Small trees and shrubbery. Stubs left behind for someone to trip over when taking a short cut at night to the parking lot on the corner of Court Street and City Hall Place.
Birds used to hang out in the trees and shrubbery, places to hide, places for observation. All gone.
Just down the street at Macdonough Monument park there was a spot where goldenrod grew, a food source for Monarch butterflies. Stripped away.
And at Champlain Monument milkweed grew in a small garden. Ripped up and trashed for more lawn. Monarch butterflies screwed again.
Decades ago there was a Plattsburgh City mayor who didn't like trees. Chop, chop. He was getting reading to cut down a large tree that still stands in front of the old federal building, now the Strand Center for the Arts. He didn't like the way it blocked the view of Brinkerhoff and Margaret Streets. Citizens came to the rescue and every year the tree is decorated with lights for Xmas.
Maybe the city should cut away all plants and pave everything with tarmac for a ubiquitous ugly parking lot.
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