Thousands Of Trees Spared In The Trinity River Bottoms

The Trinity trees are safe. The U-S Army Corps of Engineers has opted to spare about four-thousand trees along the Trinity River bottoms where Dallas is hoping to construct a park.  Last year, the Corps said the trees would have to go because they're too close to the levees that contain the Trinity when it floods.  The city wanted to keep the trees as part of the landscaping for the proposed park and the past year has been spent negotiating.  The decision went all the way to the Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington where it's now been decided to reduce the size of the tree-free zone near the levees.  Instead of four-thousand trees, the city will have now have to cut down fewer than 200.