What I've seen recently at the base of trees is something that looks
like flour, feels like flour, and smells like flour. I assume it's
flour. If it's flour, it was probably put there as a trail marker by a
Hash House Harrier group. To understand what that is, Google the name.
The city marks trees for removal with a red dot about 4 or 5 feet above
the ground.

--- In COMMUNIT-E@yahoogroups.com, "Ginni Gorman" <ginnigorman@...>
wrote:
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> Has anyone found out why so many street trees in AU Park have chalky
white marks at the base? I would hate to think that the healthy and
very welcome tree in front of our house is marked for removal.
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> Ginni Gorman
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