Lakeside folks who walk around Lindo Lake Park were  shocked and upset at the sight of 16 huge old Pepper trees being cut down to the ground by tree trimmers February 1, 2008.
  Lynne McCleary frantically called the Lakeside Historical Society wanting to know if they could put a stop to the destruction. The Historical Preservation Committee quickly called Supervisor Dianne Jacob's office, County Park Historian, Lynn Christensen and Randy Ford.  No one was at their desk to answer their distress calls and put a stop to it.
  In a desperate act of preservation a group gathered at the park by a knarly stump of an old tree and held a sign which read "Save Historic Trees." There were a lot of sympathetic park visitors who looked on helplessly as the saws kept buzzing and destroying the trees.
  McCleary stated that she had grown up with these trees while playing in the park as a child. Edna Kouns who lived in Lakeside all of her 93 years said: "It takes a long time to grow trees that big, seems like they could have done something to try to save them."
  Park Ranger Ed Lamb and Jeff, were very apologetic to the irate citizens who had gathered to protest the destruction of the historic trees. He also said that the safety of park visitors was the top priority and that they could only trim trees when it was not bird nesting season, from October until March.
  Chris Herzog, a member of the Lindo Lake Park Committee wondered why the committee had not been notified that so many historic trees were going to be cut down. Susan Conniry who walks in the park every day said.
  The historic rock walls that line Vine Street were threatened a few years ago, the County wanted to tear them down to widen the street. The Historical Society had protested that plan to the Lakeside Planning Group and were successful in saving the rock walls in Lindo Lake Park.
  In the 1990's the Lakeside Historical Society had tried to save a row of Canary Island Palm trees on Palm Row Drive.  Distress neighbors had called them to ask for help when SDG&E were cutting down the majestic trees. LHS members locked hands around the trees to stop the destruction. When the Sheriffs were called and threatened to haul them off to jail did they relented. The trees that were destroyed never were replaced as they had been promised but for a while the Society was notified when other old trees were going to be cut down.
  The Historical Society is very concerned about the loss of many mature trees because of road widening projects on Julian Avenue, Los Coches Road and Lakeview Road. Also a row of huge trees were toppled to make way for the water pipeline that was going through the town. The Society asked Supervisor Dianne Jacob's Steering Committee if there could be a new policy that whenever a mature tree is removed that two be planted in its place. They plan to ask the Lakeside Planning Group for help in creating this new policy.