Community Organizers Work to Save Trees Targeted by Obama – Wall Street Journal

Next week former President Barack Obama’s eponymous foundation is hosting a summit meeting to promote its planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park. But a hardy band of conservationists, determined to save local birds and trees from the designs of our nation’s 44th President, is planning a Friday court filing and a weekend protest. The Obama tree removals have not yet been scheduled. But once they are scheduled, he believes as many as 500 trees could be doomed by the Obama plan, counting land for the center and related transportation projects.

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