This article by John Carey in the Washington Post on August 13 shares a success story that helped bring folks together and motivate our interest in finding more systemic ways to save more mature trees in Arlington and across VA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-tree-that-survived-the-civil-war-was-just-saved-from-developers-chain-saws/2017/08/11/ae5d3ab4-6be2-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.3d1417e9748e