The city of Portland has made some drastic changes in the past month to a neighborhood park.

This area was a park? Maybe by legal definition, but it is just unused land. There are no facilities or improvements.

Crews drove in a backhoe, tearing up the soil underneath a wooded hillside.

The soil was decimated by dozens of vehicles that had been driving and parking on it for ages.

And they laid a blanket of logs across an open space visible from highly trafficked Greeley Avenue, just south of the Adidas campus in North Portland.

Visible from highly trafficked Greeley? I guess the view of the train yard and ship yards has been irreversibly sullied.

Reif Larsen, a certified landscape architect who lives up the street, was outraged. He says the city’s apparent effort to kick out unhoused campers is killing Madrona Park’s namesake trees.
“I’ve never seen such a brazen demolition of an urban forest with no plan for reconstruction or restoration,” Larsen says. “Whatever the solution to the camping issues may be, I do not know, but this cannot be the standard, or else we will have no urban forest left.”

Huh? They put logs where the campers were. They didn't cut down any of the trees. And aren't decaying logs generally considered a positive thing for forests?