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Diseased or dying trees identified for removal (49 in total) are primarily located in the diseased <br />tree area shown on Figure 7. However, some dead white pine trees were also present in the <br />conifer areas. Diseased/dead trees identified for removal are hazard trees in poor to dead/dying <br />condition and are in locations that would endanger property and/or other trees. Due to their <br />exiting low quality, mitigation for these trees is not proposed. <br />Mitigation for any snags removed from within the building area would not require mitigation as <br />snags are dead trees. However, snags outside of the building area do not pose a hazard and can <br />provide valuable wildlife habitat to a wide variety of birds and mammals and should left in place. <br />Many of the larger sugar maples in the very southeast portion of the site have numerous cavities , <br />and barred owl feathers were observed. These trees should be left in place unless they pose a <br />hazard to the building sites. <br />Tree Protection and Mitigation Plan -The exact trees that will be removed due to home <br />construction is unknown at this time. Therefore a mitigation plan for impacts to healthy trees has <br />not been provided with this memo . <br />When assessing tree impacts in the future , boxelder trees s hould be considered to be an invasive <br />native species and therefore should not require mitigation.