On Wednesday, community members attended the city council meeting to request that more be done to plant and save more trees in Bakersfield. This is a part of a wider initiative that started over a year ago to ask the city to have a plan to increase the air quality in Bakersfield. A plan was adopted at the time, yet since then, community members are not satisfied with what has been done.
“Whole portions of that plan have been virtually ignored,” said Eddy Laine with the Sierra Club, referencing the adoptions to the tree plan by the city council in 2024.
Laine stated that one specific agreement that has not been upheld is the promise not to trim trees from July to September due to it hurting the trees…