{"id":20191,"date":"2020-11-03T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20191"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:09:15","slug":"tree-falls-at-lansdowne-college-says-impacted-trees-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/11\/03\/tree-falls-at-lansdowne-college-says-impacted-trees-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree falls at Lansdowne, college says impacted trees safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 13, a Garry oak tree fell on to Camosun College\u2019s Lansdowne campus, ripping out part of a gutter off of Richmond House.<\/p>\n

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The fallen tree on Camosun’s Lansdowne campus (photos by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Garry oak\u2014an endangered species\u2014was on Saanich property, on the sidewalk right off the edge of campus on Richmond Road near Argyle Avenue, in front of the Child Care Centre. Camosun facilities operations manager Julie Oakley says that the college isn\u2019t responsible for trees that are off campus property, however, the trees next to Richmond House that were impacted by the fall were inspected by the college and declared safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt knocked a couple of branches off that tree [in front of Richmond House], but I don\u2019t think there was any significant damage,\u201d she says. \u201cOur guys would have gone around after the Saanich tree was pulled away and made sure that, if there were any hanging branches or anything [it was cleaned up]. I looked at it this morning. There\u2019s nothing precarious going on with that tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Camosun wasn\u2019t involved in the cleanup, Oakley says that college grounds workers are responsible for all the vegetation on both campuses. Anything the college does with endangered species has to have approval from Saanich or Oak Bay, depending where on campus the endangered species is (the border between the two municipalities runs through college property).<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was in contact with the district of Saanich to inform them that it fell, and to let them know that it was blocking the sidewalk, and to put some timing around when they were going to deal with it,\u201d says Oakley, adding that it took a few days because of the volume of trees Saanich was dealing with during the wind storm at that time. \u201cWe hadn\u2019t checked the tree, we were not aware of any problems with the tree, like the internal rot that you can see in that [Victoria News<\/em>] photo. It wouldn\u2019t have been a tree that we had assessed. It would have been Saanich\u2019s responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oakley says that the bigger logs from the tree were used in a Saanich restoration project, while some of the smaller logs were donated to the college\u2019s carpentry department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re storing it for us until the saw mill has time for it,\u201d says Oakley.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society external executive Quinn Cunningham says that the CCSS is happy no one was standing where the tree fell. He says that, in the interest of student safety, the college assessing trees on and around campus is a good idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Garry oaks fall,\u201d he says. \u201cThey come down hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trees on the college\u2019s campuses may be assessed every three to five years, or longer, depending on visible changes to the vegetation on campus, says Oakley. The last assessment took place in 2018 at Interurban and last year at Lansdowne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 13, a Garry oak tree fell on to Camosun College\u2019s Lansdowne campus, ripping out part of a gutter off of Richmond House. The Garry oak\u2014an endangered species\u2014was on Saanich property, on the sidewalk right off the edge of campus on Richmond Road near Argyle Avenue, in front of the Child Care Centre. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20195,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20191\/revisions\/20195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}