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Parks Service official destroys Trump claim about 'diseased' trees
What happened
AlterNet reports that National Park Service superintendent Kevin Griess testified that the East Potomac Park golf course was not generally overrun with “falling, dangerous and disease-infested trees,” contrary to public claims by President Donald Trump and the Interior Department. Griess told Judge Ana Reyes that most of the hundreds of removed trees were healthy and non-invasive, while allowing that a few dangerous trees might have existed in an initially inaccessible area.
Griess said his staff developed the removal plan under his direction, but that Jessica Bowron in the Park…
The skinny
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